• Do We Laugh at Ourselves to Regain Control Over the Situation?

    Do We Laugh at Ourselves to Regain Control Over the Situation?

    Do We Laugh at Ourselves to Regain Control Over the Situation? by Sopho Kharazi © Sopho Kharazi Throughout my life, I have experienced a lot of social interactions in which I represented Ms. Awkwardness. I do not want to get into details about the most recent one, because it still makes me cringe when I…

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  • Everything is a Daughter’s Task

    Everything is a Daughter’s Task

    Everything is a Daughter’s Task by Sopho Kharazi © Sopho Kharazi One more time, this blog is a product of a movie that made me think. I watched a Georgian movie called „Blackbird, blackbird, blackberry“ (შაშვი, შაშვი, მაყვალი). It tells the story of a single, 48-years-old Georgian woman living and owning a shop in a…

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  • Bodies, Boredom and Sex

    Bodies, Boredom and Sex

    Bodies, Boredom and Sex by Sopho Kharazi © Sopho Kharazi Let’s talk about what we love and hate talking about: our bodies. I went to the exhibition of Jean Dubuffet and one whole section was dedicated to the concept of Body. Within the scope of Art Brut, bodies depicted by Dubuffet are not conventionally beautiful…

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  • Let’s Create Problems

    Let’s Create Problems

    Let’s Create Problems by Sopho Kharazi © Sopho Kharazi What happens when the life you have, has been planned by you but now you realize that you do not like your plan and the life you are living? Do not get me wrong, I am still enjoying what I have, but my intuition tells me…

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  • Becoming a Woman

    Becoming a Woman

    Becoming a Woman by Sopho Kharazi © Sopho Kharazi The air is crispy in the morning, says a person who arrived home at 7 am. Today is very gloomy and grey, the weather that can put any breathing creature into silent desperation. But somehow I am loving it. Somehow everything feels silent today – my…

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  • Les Misérables

    Les Misérables

    Les Misérables by Sopho Kharazi © Sopho Kharazi Hello, my friends! How have you been? I have not been great, mainly due to the fact that I have been feeling a lot of resentment lately towards everything, including myself. I think it started this way: in September, I shared with my friend how tired I…

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  • Hurtful Liberations

    Hurtful Liberations

    Hurtful Liberations by Sopho Kharazi © Sopho Kharazi Throughout one of my sleepless nights, I came across Anna Akana’s video You’re Not Traumatized You’re Just Hurt. I really saw myself in her video and that made me cringe to my bones. According to her, nowadays the line between being hurt and traumatized becomes very blurry…

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  • Melancholy of Remembering the Past

    Melancholy of Remembering the Past

    Melancholy of Remembering the Past by Sopho Kharazi © Sopho Kharazi The topic I want to discuss today is what I recorded a few weeks ago. So, all those emotions that I will describe here are honestly gone because they were intense on that specific day, but I would still like to share. So, let’s…

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  • In Love With Everything But Loving Nothing

    In Love With Everything But Loving Nothing

    In Love with Everything but Loving Nothing by Sopho Kharazi © Sopho Kharazi I have not felt childish in a very long time. Despite my resting bitch face, I have always been childish. During my teens, I wore pink glasses and romanticized everything in the world; I was constantly in love. My extremely dense imagination…

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  • Dating Patterns of a Friendly Asshole

    Dating Patterns of a Friendly Asshole

    Dating Patterns of a Friendly Asshole by Sopho Kharazi © Sopho Kharazi I am writing this right after having a two-hour conversation with a close friend to whom I have not talked for months. Obviously, when you tell a friend about what happened to you in a span of several months, it feels like you…

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