„I live with my father in a rented apartment. Dad has a heart disease and he needs 100 GEL worth medications per week. My mother is a migrant to Spain. It so happened that the senior citizen my mom was taking care of, passed away
„I identify myself as a queer. Being a queer for me primarily means confronting with heteronormativity, recognizing and realizing that sexual orientation and gender identity is not binary, but a spectrum. Before getting there, I walked a long and difficult road. For a long time I
„A scene in a kindergarten: - Why are you crying?! You are not a sissy, are you?!” – The preschool teacher scolds my son. - Calling someone sissy is rude! Besides, boys cry too! – My angry son retorts. I am summoned to the kindergarten. In my opinion, fostering
„War! Even the sound of this word is terrible and imagine surviving the actual war. It was June 22 of 1941. I was a 10th grade pupil. In the yard where I lived, a radio was installed on a tree, broadcasting news. That morning they
Elene Dariani’s personality has been wrapped in mystery in the history of the Georgian literature. 14 poems in the literary works of Paolo Iashvili, a famous Georgian poet, are combined under the name of the ‘Darian cycle’. Therefore, until recently it was thought that these
„For years, I worked in the Tbilisi Public Healthcare Center. Let me tell you what those times were like. Sometimes I had to go from Vake to Saburtalo on foot. The small salary I received, in coupons, I gave to my mother for food. I
„I have always wanted to be a film director. When the film degree program was opened for the first time in the Batumi Arts Institute and they started accepting applications, somebody spread the inside information that they did not accept girls. The Institute officials apparently
"I calling on you, my fellow women. I am calling on you for the cause of the women’s rights. I am calling on those who are heartbroken because they don’t have any rights. And by “rights” I don’t necessarily mean the right to being a
„I am Mariam Mikiashvili. I am 28 years old. I have a spouse and a child, who will be one year old soon. I live in Tbilisi and I am a special education teacher. I studied this profession in Norway. Before that, I got a