Earliest political memory of the day #79
Staying up really, really late with my mum and my (German) Nan, watching the fall of the Berlin Wall. They were both crying. I didn’t understand it all, but I […]
Staying up really, really late with my mum and my (German) Nan, watching the fall of the Berlin Wall. They were both crying. I didn’t understand it all, but I […]
Parents struggle to move up within the workplace because they weren’t locals (UAE) Moving to Canada for better work & education
My earliest pololitical memory is when I learnt and did a polotical poster of NELSON MANDELLA! it was so GOOD!
Umbrella revolution in Hong Kong.
Me and brother used to work at my parents’ petrol station since primary school. My parents needed to go to bed at noon time and we helped by working there […]
At the age of 6/7 witnessing the civil war in Somalia. Trying to escape from Mogadishu as the city was being bombed. Seeing a bullet go through my aunties breast […]
I’m from Brussels, I’m born there. But as I have Serbian origins my name doesn’t sound Belgian at all. So during my entire life everytime I said my name (at […]
Athens 1980s. I grew up in the Exarcheia neighbourhood of Athens. There was always something going on. The police. The anarchists, Fires on the road, The Chemistry Faculty building on […]
environmental activism when I was 13 to “Save Irakli beach” from development [Bulgaria].
Hearing the name ‘John Major’ on TV and asking mu parents who he was. They told me “He’s the man who steals all mummy + daddy’s money”