Education: MA in Arts Criticism
Occupation: NGO “IDentoba”, Editor in Chief of on-line magazine
Research intersts: gender and culture, LGBT identities, women’s studies
Languages: French, Russian
City: Tbilisi
E-mail: shorena_gabunia[at]yahoo.com
Biography: In 2009, Shorena became alumna of Heinrich Boell Foundation, her research topic being “Homosexuality in Tbilisi urban culture”. Since 2012 Shorena works for NGO “Identoba” as Editor in Chief of the on-line magazine.
Publications:
- Introduction to LGBT journalism, Tbilisi, 2013
- Urban Spaces after Socialism. Ethnographies of Public Places in Eurasian Cities. «Gay territories in urban environment of Tbilisi city», Campus Verlag. Berlin. 2011
- Гомосексуальность в городской культуре Тбилиси, Город, Миграция, Рынок: Новый взгляд на социокультурные проблемы в исследованиях ученых Южного Кавказа/Южно-Кавказское региональное бюро Фонда им. Генриха Бёлля. - 2011;
- “Role of virtual communications in the life of lesbian women from Tbilisi ”, Tbilisi, 2010