My Mom Has Dementia — and Soon I Might Too
My mother always said: “If something happens to me, take me to a care center without guilt...”
Don’t Forget to Remember: Dementia Is No Priority for Armenian Health Care
Most often, we learn about the illness from the caregivers. They look exhausted, limit their social lives, struggle with depression and burnout..
There is No Such Thing as Documentary
...we are afraid to show our confusion in public, but much depends on how we respond to it.
Hair and Lip Fillers Off, Chest Flattened — I Go to See My Folks
People don’t really clock me: neighbors, shopkeepers — no clue I’m trans.
Two Cultures of Denunciation
Or, as Stalin would have put it, it’s class war. And if it’s class war, perhaps I should just stick to my own class standpoint and continue to oppose snitching in almost all circumstances. But wait...
Background Noise in Ideology
I am not even saying ‘politics is the unconscious,’ but only ‘the unconscious is politics’
Not everybody can become an entrepreneur: Shamshadin
“The only thing this government has done right is asphalt.”
I’m a Workaholic. It’s Like Alcoholic, But For Work
Through foraging, Anahit raised four children and put three of them through higher education — “exclusively thanks to nature”..
Psychotic Little Worlds
“Safety” is no longer a possibility for which there is collective struggle but has become shelter from struggle. Queer feminist struggle: a diversified investment portfolio.
Dreams after Karabakh
I’m in Karabakh as a tourist. And I’m with Turks, but I try to act so they don’t realize I’m Armenian.
My friends feel closer to me than my family
Single people displaced from Karabakh have no way to find housing even in remote villages in Armenia. There...
Collective Statement by the Caucasus Feminist Anti-War Movement
Against Azerbaijan’s Authoritarianism, COP29 and Green Capitalism, Wars, and Regional Slide into Authoritarianism