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...
by Antonina Mamzenko | Feb 13, 2024 | Uncategorized
TL;DR: Please pre-order my book via Kickstarter. The majority (56 percent) of all Kickstarter projects fail. So it really should have come as no surprise when the Kickstarter to publish my debut photography book Beauty Hunting failed last summer. I only...
by Antonina Mamzenko | Jan 22, 2024 | Uncategorized
A small village called Cioburciu, on the banks of river Dniester, in the Soviet Republic of Moldova was where I spent every childhood summer until I was 11 years old, all three glorious months it, from early June to the end of August. We would stuff boxes and...
by Antonina Mamzenko | Jan 1, 2024 | Uncategorized
Around this time last year I wrote about not making any New Year’s resolutions. How it was, in fact, crazy that we became conditioned to make them at the gloomiest part of the year (I took the paywall off that post – you’re welcome to read it and share your own...
