‘’I was born and raised in Tbilisi. I was the only child in my family and my parents struggled to raise me. We recently paid back all of our bank obligations and private loans, which we had to take to ensure I had access to...
‘’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...
"I conducted my first lesson as a teacher when I was 18 years old. I was studying at the Faculty of Philology, and suddenly a vacancy appeared in our village: I had to teach Georgian language lessons in one-on-one classes. This is where my story as...
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...
"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 was born in a border village, Vakhtangisi. 90% of the population in this village is Azerbaijanian. I didn’t have the opportunity to travel beyond the village. So, I thought the whole world was this village and I couldn’t imagine there was also Georgia beyond...
Before I turned 21, I spent 5 years in the USA – first I went there by FLEX, then I was given a scholarship and I stayed at the university. I've always been interested in activism in Georgia and I've been observing it from the...