‘’When I was growing up, no one let me feel different and I didn’t realize that I was different. One day when I wanted to run outside with the kids and my mom couldn’t explain why she wouldn’t let me go, she let me stand
"It's very hard to be a mother in our culture. Just because people weren't able to understand my children, people often threw mud at me. For the first time, it was because of my eldest daughter Salome, and her activism. I remember I almost died with
Amputation ''About seven years ago, I fell on the handle of a carved door and was injured. I had a large hematoma on my hand, which was soon absorbed. Time to time the post-traumatic pain returned, though it didn’t bother me much, and moreover, as the
People said I was a musically gifted kid from the beginning. I also remember that when I sang in kindergarten, I never liked accompaniment. That’s because it seems that nature gifted me so much that even at the age of 3, I could understand when
‘’I finished school here in Tsereteli. Unlike today, back then Azerbaijani children weren’t admitted to Georgian schools. Therefore, the first time I had contact with an ethnic minority was in the Takalo village, where I taught the Georgian language for 4 years at an Azerbaijani
‘’My father was arrested on August 8th in 1937, a few days earlier before I was born. He was a Social Democrat and had already been arrested once in 1926, spending 6 years in Tashkent prison. In 1937, he was arrested again as a former
My mother is an Ossetian raised in Georgia, but I always said that I was born in Georgian and Tskhinvali is Georgia. My mother died when giving birth to me and I grew up without her. I was a really beautiful girl, I sang well and
How I became an activist ‘’I call myself a civil activist, but there was a time when I didn’t even know what gender meant and I thought early marriage was a normal thing to do. In 2003, my 15-year-old sister got married and I wasn't bothered
We have been at war since 1991 and we defended every inch of our land with our own lives. My husband's life was also sacrificed to this struggle in 1992. We knew that Eredvi had been attacked the day before and the captives had been taken