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A diary of a 🌈 immigrant: reflections, learnings, millennial jokes, and intercultural puzzles.
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🗿Sounds Too Familiar (opens the original)
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I promised myself to postpone writing this until my spreadsheet has more than a thousand lines. Today it has 1031, so here we go!Here, you get your weekly updates on my anchoring process — and stories from the past.</d
🦦 Queer Moomins of my Childhood (opens the original)
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Last week we spoke about two solid sources of queer representation in my teenage times:generous projection, rich in fantasy (McFly meets Montague),songs by queer artists, full of meaning — even if hidden between the lines.Here, you get your week
💿 Guests from the Future (opens the original)
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IdentityYour identity is not who you are, but who you become in relation to the world around you.This is what I’ve gotten from Francesca Stella’s “Lesbian Lives in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia: Post/Socialism and Gendered Sexualities”. She writes:If we think of identities as relational and as constantly renegotiated in social interaction, they need not only to be affirmed and made visible, but also to be validated by others.<div class="captioned-image-container"
🎀 The Art of Making People Feel Seen (opens the original)
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I don’t really care about formalities. Or celebrations. But choosing the right gift could make you feel seen, and I care about this a lot, from both the giving and receiving sides.We meet people; we exchange stories and opinions. As another anniversary approaches, there is a window for exchanging tokens of our connection. That’s meaningful and cute.It’s difficult to find a good gift, and it’s a creative job to come up with one. Especially in our time, when people can afford many practical things
Berlin, Landsberger Allee (opens the original)
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The paradox of my emigration is that although I was issued a privileged ‘blue card’ visa (available to people in fancy industries like tech, with higher income expectations), it felt like running away.In 2022, many people I knew became emigrants. Some left as soon as they could without caring so much which way to flee; others took time to prepare. My friends landed everywhere. I haven’t seen most of them since, but we keep our connections online.Around a million1 Russian passport holders have em
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