‘IT’S A LIBERATION STRUGGLE FOR US’
Dec 07, 2021
4 minutes
Illustrations: Jason Ngai
‘I cannot change my life because some fascists are threatening me’
DIJANA PETROVIC
Actor, campaigner, karate master Milan, Italy
After growing up in Serbia at the height of the Balkan wars, Dijana Pavolvic was used to living on the edge. But when she moved to Milan in 1999 to work as an actress, she found herself in a bubble of prosperity: ‘In Milan, it was [all] lights, beautiful, rich’.
After she was asked to work as a mediator with Romani school children, she soon discovered that Italy was marked by deep segregation. ‘I could not even imagine that people
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