“You’re so Americanized” you mean I got an education, I have the emotional intelligence and capacity to have empathy, I have a sense of self worth, I have unlearned internalized misogyny and toxic behaviors that come with it, I have self respect, i have respect for others?
Devastating news #Armenia: this young gay couple posted their pictures & committed suicide together by jumping from Davitashen bridge in #Yerevan.
'Happy end...we decided all our actions together' - they wrote in this last post.
Both of them very young.
Rest in peace angels 🙏
My great grandmother was fleeing from Adana during the genocide. Great grandpa was no where to be found (taken by the Turks) but they promised each other if they both survived, they would meet at a certain city in Greece. (Not knowing Greece was getting terrorized too) (1)
10-year-old Armenian boy named Mushegh displays the wounds caused by attempts to crucify him in Diza in spring 1915, Source: Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute
Even in the post-war situation with serious external security and PTSD problems, #Armenia remains number 5 safest country in the world to walk alone at night. #publicsafety#internalsecurity
Armenia has seen three wars since independence, 1988-1994, 2016, and 2020… this lady who probably left for Ukraine following the most-recent is now forced to deal with a fourth war…