When asked whether I feel more Kosovar-Albanian or British, I often retreat with a deliberately dull answer — “it depends.”
In my early teens, I began to notice the gendered expectations that shaped daily life in Peja, the subtle and overt ways both girls and women were treated differently.
Unlike in London, where I often had to seek out people who shared my interests, it turns out that in Peja, they had been there all along.
Rea Hoti
Rea Hoti has interned at Kosovo 2.0 and is an undergraduate student pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Geography at the University of Bristol. Her academic interests include urban political ecology, migration studies and post-humanism.
This story was originally written in Albanian.