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How, the author wondered, could she change hearts and minds around LGBT rights in her native Croatia? By coming out on national TV, and in the country’s most popular magazine.
Mima is a writer, cultural critic and an LGBTQ rights activist who uses imaginative and creative ways to express herself. She firmly believes in humor as therapy for activists and for society to counter the recent surge in fear-mongering political demagogy.
Mima has been an LGBTQ activist for over a dozen years and earned the title of the “Croatian LGBT person of the decade” from the Zagreb Pride Committee. She has leveraged media appearances to promote activism by outing herself in popular quiz shows, cooking shows, high-profile political shows, and conservative newspapers.