Lillian Avedian is a writer for The Armenian Weekly, a historic community newspaper based in Watertown, Massachusetts. She is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley with a Bachelor of Arts in Peace and Conflict Studies and a Bachelor of Arts in Slavic Languages and Literature. She applies her human rights expertise to uncover silenced narratives through her work as a journalist. Her reporting can also be found in Hetq and the Daily Californian.&nbsp;

Lillian Avedian

“Art Is So Scary”: Yulia Tsvetkova and the Suppression of Dissent in Putin’s Russia

"For a long time now I haven't been I."
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

Around the World

"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa

Art &amp; Architecture

"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." — Molly Ivins

Politics

"As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag." — Patti Smith

Gender &amp; Sexuality

Lillian Avedian is a writer for The Armenian Weekly, a historic community newspaper based in Watertown, Massachusetts. She is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley with a Bachelor of Arts in Peace and Conflict Studies and a Bachelor of Arts in Slavic Languages and Literature. She applies her human rights expertise to uncover silenced narratives through her work as a journalist. Her reporting can also be found in Hetq and the Daily Californian.&nbsp;