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
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
I’m considered a first-generation trans. Imagine, in time of Edika (Eduard Shevardnadze) I already had my identity. In 90's Georgia (I was still a child back then), I came out of the omnipresent street gang period alive and survived. I don’t know exactly why; probably
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
Since very childhood, I've always seen myself as a girl. Except for boy's name, I could see no difference between other girls and myself. By the age of 11-12, I started considering seriously about who I was. Because of the homophobic environment around me, I
„One of the biggest disappointments and traumas in my life was the 17th of May, 2013. That was the day I could finally see the true colors of the organized religion. I saw the hatred and the malevolence that the Georgian Orthodox Church had been
„As a queer activist, most of the time I feel proud and happy; however, frequently, I have equally felt bullied and isolated. Even though the first feeling is predominant, the bullying I’ve suffered is too destructive and being isolated is too disheartening. Being queer means to
„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
„I was born male but I am an intersex person, i.e. a person with xx chromosome. I was different from other children since my childhood. Everybody noticed that in the family, the more so that I was most different from 8 siblings (of which 4