Eldest Immigrant Daughter This is "Eldest Immigrant Daughter," a column by Ruth Madievsky that explores diasporic identity through the lens of digital culture.

Cover Photo: A photograph taken from above of several people sitting on a couch and pointing toward a laptop screen on the table in front of them. All of their hands are pointing toward the laptop screen.
Unlearning the Shame Culture of the Former Soviet Union

The avoidance of shame is a community obsession, one I haven’t been able to escape even in my thirties.

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Ruth Madievsky
Mar 22, 2022
Columns | Eldest Immigrant Daughter
Cover Photo: An illustration of two people, an older man and a younger woman, on either ends of a phone call. The phones are royal blue and the cord between them is curled into various shapes that represent objects contained in Russian idioms: a chair, a fish, an ice cream cone.
Bridging My Family’s Language Barrier, One Filthy Russian Idiom at a Time

My family may not get much of my writing, but our mutual appreciation for ill-advised sexual mayhem transcends language.

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Ruth Madievsky
Jan 31, 2022
Columns | Eldest Immigrant Daughter
Cover Photo: A photograph of the author as a small child, wearing a dress and with her hair styled in pigtails. She is smiling and pointing at a map of the U.S. that is affixed to a wall.
Lessons On Diasporic Identity from Meme Culture

There was something mutually exclusive about being either an eldest immigrant daughter or a normal, well-adjusted adult.

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Ruth Madievsky
Sep 27, 2021
Columns | Eldest Immigrant Daughter