Anna grew up on Ikaria, enjoying the freedom and carefree spirit that an island offers. However, her life became more challenging during her teenage years when she realized that she was attracted to girls.
Narration: Lazaretou Anna, Haris Pagonidou
Researcher: Xirou Despina
Podcast Creation: Charis Pagonidou
Sound Design: Thodoris Moustakas
Sound Editing: Nicoletta Tekaki
Istorima is the biggest project of recording and preserving oral histories of Greece. Over 1,000 young researchers find narrators, listen, collect and save stories of people from all over Greece : Stories of their place, stories of love, stories that changed us or defined us, stories modern or old. Stories that are not recorded in the history books and that could be lost in time. Istorima is the co-creation of the journalist Sofia Papaioannou and the historian Katherine Fleming and is implemented with a founding donation from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) as part of his Youth Reboot and Empowerment initiative (learn more at www.snf.org). The more than 20,000 stories are being published in their entirety in stages at www.archive.istorima.org. Excerpts of the stories are published in the form of podcasts, videos or written stories at www.istorima.org