"The family has never restricted my freedom or made me stay at home. Quite the opposite, as soon as I started walking I went out and have been out ever since. But I had some problems with finding a job. I sent my job applications
„I think my life would be easier if I were a boy. I used to keep a diary a few years ago. Reading the records made during the holidays I found out that I always complained about one and the same thing – my elder
„In the years 2003-2008, I worked in a bank as a loan officer. This is where I realized for the first time how many women are actually discriminated at workplace. The first shock came when I read a work contract where the length of my
„In our culture, single women are classified into two groups: unmarried and to-be-married. There is zero tolerance to a woman’s free will. On the contrary, if a woman is not married by a certain age, she becomes suspicious in the public eye. I frequently have
„I have already come out to the family and my friends. I live with my mother. My father is no longer alive. I do not remember exactly whether I was 17 or18 years old when I came out. First I fell in love with a
“By March, I will have been a migrant for 13 years. Initially I thought that I would not stay here for more than 5 years – I thought of this term as going to prison. When I arrived in Italy some women said that they
"Amputation came as a shock to family, not me. I had been thinking about it and mentally preparing myself for it. My hand had been dysfunctional for 7 years and I was suffering from pain. Our financial condition was not favorable. We had to sell