Author: Mihaela Marija Perkovic

Mihaela Marija Perkovic was GUFF laureate 2013 and European GUFF Adminstrator 2013-2018. She is an author, and many more things, most of which you can find in the header of this blog. She runs a boutique business focused on writing in Croatia and SF cons and writing workshops all over the world.

Sealioning

I learned a new word the other day on Twitter – sealioning. I love it when that happens. It very rarely does, especially in Croatian. That used to make me a bit sad. I just wanted to record one simple, little fact here that also makes me a bit sad: Sealioning doesn’t stand a chance […]

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Feminism in Apsurdistan Presidential Elections

Had somebody told me that I would scorn a female candidate for president of my country, I would not have been surprised. The current female candidate, as well the one that was prime minister, belong to the same political party, the one whose penultimate prime minister is currently sitting in jail for his corrupt ways […]

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Discovering Old Habits

When in school, my ability to focus into something made me the best pupil/student anybody ever had. I could never understand how people failed quizzed and exams if they were present in the classroom when that lesson was taught. I could clearly remember the teacher’s words. Except the physics guy and the old math bat, […]

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Firefly and The Wrong Side of History

One cannot be Croatian and not be aware of being a bad guy in history. Croatia, before becoming independent in a bloody war at the end of the 20th century had unsuccessfully tried to become so a few years shy of the middle of the that century.  And chose the bad guys as its partners […]

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Continental Europe goes for TAFF!

I am forever full of guilt for not writing and speaking of GUFF and fan funds more (natural state for me – nothing is ever enough, as proven by my girth!). From time to time, though, my heart gets huge and I get giddy because I see that I did make a difference. In this […]

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