by Antonina Mamzenko | Feb 3, 2025 | Uncategorized
Recently I’ve been mulling over how I’d like to run this blog going forward. Sometimes I have stern words with myself and say: “Get yourself together, you need to write something every other week if you want people to keep subscribing”. But the truth is, there just...
by Antonina Mamzenko | Dec 16, 2024 | Uncategorized
For many years, I studied and worked in marketing and branding. My master’s thesis back in 2007 was on online branding of UK museums, before iPhones or social media -or online branding, really – were a properly a thing… you could say I was ahead of the...
by Antonina Mamzenko | Dec 10, 2024 | Uncategorized
I wrote this piece several years ago for the now-defunct online magazine The Kindred Voice. Here, I describe events that happened around 2014-2016 as I battled with Graves Disease – and the lack of awareness and understanding of it from people around me. With...
by Antonina Mamzenko | Mar 14, 2024 | Uncategorized
What – or who – do you imagine when you think about “an activist”? A young person screaming through a loud speaker? A protestor throwing orange paint at a Mona Lisa? Someone blocking a highway? Someone on a hunger strike? An old lady pestering her elected...
by Antonina Mamzenko | Feb 19, 2024 | Uncategorized
Two things you should probably know about me: I can’t sit still and meditate – my mind just doesn’t stop when my body is at rest. I’m not a walker. That’s just not something that was ever at the top of my list of “enjoyable things to do”. And yet, a “walking...
