Life after an earthquake is the labor of reconstruction
Day to day life of a family in Sisak during and after the earthquake.
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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.