"Komli" The etymology of the word ‘’Komli’’ (meaning smoke from a household) is very interesting and if we look thematically, it tells the story of strong, able women. To this day, the rural population is counted by counting households with smoke, each belonging to separate families
I got married when I was 15 years old – I was already with my husband on my 16th birthday. I barely knew him, had seen him only once, when he bought cigarettes in my mother’s restaurant in Bakhmaro. He was a brunette and also
I’m a bisexual woman, co-founder of ‘’Tbilisi Pride’’ and LGTB queer activist. I was 13-14 years old when I first had a relationship with a woman. It was my first experience, but it was so weird and unacceptable that I ignored it in my mind, as
Introduction This story happened by an accident. I was 37 years old and working as a translator at a military base. Once in every six months, American Marines arrived in Georgia, and when one rotation arrived, they decided to go to an orphanage in Tbilisi, to offer
We don’t know exactly how we’re doing – we’re enduring… If you walk down the street, you’ll only see disinfection machines, the police and one or two people who are either going to work or to buy groceries. Sometimes I really think that I’m in
Migrants' daughter I was in the first grade when my father went to Greece and he spent most of his life there. While I was in second grade, my mother followed him and returned two years later. By that time, I was in ninth grade and
Seeking for myself… It was exactly five months ago I confessed to myself and to my friends I was a transgender woman and couldn't live otherwise, didn’t find it worth living otherwise. I’ve spent 22 years looking for myself though. My memories start from the age
''I was 33 years old when my husband and I got married. This is the age for a woman when everybody asks why you're still not married. The most annoying question I remember was when they asked if I had any problems and that was
''I work for Georgian Air Navigation, I'm an airport observer in the Batumi airport tower. My duty is to ensure flight safety. I'm giving pilots instructions and directions so that they can make the right decisions about what to do; in addition, together with my