Life after an earthquake is the labor of reconstruction
Day to day life of a family in Sisak during and after the earthquake.
Surviving earthquakes together feels similar to surviving the war.
This one was the strongest so far, the ground was shaking like never before.
It's a new year! May it bring still ground and light!
When I close my eyes, first I see the meadow where I froze while holding my baby last Tuesday when the 6.4 shook off all the joy of life.
Only moments after I sat my head on a pillow and closed my eyes, as I was going to contemplate returning home after 20 days of displacement, the house moved.
Emina Bužinkić
Emina Bužinkić is a political activist who shapes her work at the intersections of migration, education, transnational feminism and solidarity. She is working on a doctorate in critical educational and cultural studies at the University of Minnesota, USA, with frequent visits to Croatia and the Balkans, and is active in the collective Trans-Balkan Solidarity, AGITATE! — Unsettling Knowledges and Imagining Transnational Solidarities Research Circle. She believes in change, transdisciplinarity and the word.
This story was originally written in English.