„I was born and brought up in the Pankisi Gorge, Georgia. But I studied in Russia for 4 years, then I graduated from a university in Chechnya-Ingushetia, where I met my future husband. It was in 1993, tensions had already started between Russian and Chechnya.
Ana: „ I was a small girl when my parents took me to a music school. This school was right in front of a stadium and I used to stand for hours and watch boys playing soccer after I finished my music lessons. My teacher,
„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
„I had an apartment in the city, which we mortgaged during the crisis years, but we failed to repay the loan and lost it. So my husband and I moved to this village, where we stay through the whole year. People, tourists like here and
I am a fourth-year student of Tbilisi State University. I would hardly be able to study at the university unless I had support from my family. We are from Kutaisi. My family moved to Tbilisi when I went to school. Initially the handbook of the Georgian
„I was 12 years old when I realized my sexual orientation. I tried hard to keep it secret. I retired into my shell trying to hide everything. I found that rather hard…I found it hard to realize and find my own self. Although everything seemed
„I was in the third month of pregnancy when I was widowed. I was too young when my son was born. They family helped me in bringing up the child but I used to work a lot: I worked in a greenhouse. After working hours
(A lawyer, who works with a team of scouts to promote micro and small enterprises as part of the state program Enterprise Georgia. Christine is a democracy and education activist). „Discrimination based on gender has been so inherent to our everyday life that society seems to
The stories and the challenges that are told by the modern women from Georgia on this page, were in fact first written and talked about by the women living as early as a century ago. Most of you are probably familiar with them - the