Reviews
Review | A Room of My Own — queerness and constraint in Georgia
A Room of My Own is an intimate but unfinished portrait of female friendship, desire, and self-discovery in contemporary Tbilisi.
Women’s Rights
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Chechnya
Aishat Baimuradova buried in Yerevan months after murder
Her family has refused to retrieve her body for burial in Chechnya.
Reviews
Review | Persephone (Where the Light Forgets Me) — the echoing architecture of girlhood
This debut work is an exploration of girlhood, leaning into an internal, almost private narrative that speaks to a collective female experience.
Georgia
How sexual extortion turns intimacy into terror in Georgia
Criminal prosecutions related to sexual extortion cases have nearly doubled since 2020, though the real number of cases is almost certainly higher.
Georgia
Kobakhidze hints Georgia may reconsider its participation in a treaty against gender-based violence
Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze’s statement came after a far-right figure’s complaint.
Reviews
Review | The Cage is Looking for a Bird — a Chechen tale of women’s agency
Malika Musaeva’s film is an uncompromisingly depressing look into how little agency young women in the North Caucasus have in their own lives.
Armenia
Armenia deports Chechen who threatened to murder daughter
The deportation follows the high-profile murder of a Chechen woman in Yerevan.
