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Hi, I’m Mima.<\/strong> Author, feminist and mum \u2014 and some would say a witch. I say: words are my magic.<\/p>\n

The “S” in my name has changed its meaning as my life changed: I was Student Mama, taking university exams with a baby in my arms; Sofia’s Mama, after the little girl who started it all; and “Super” Mama \u2014 in quotation marks, because I don’t believe in that title.<\/p>\n

The superwoman is a myth \u2014 and one of the myths I write about most.<\/p>\n

This site began in 2019 as the diary of a Balkan mum in Germany.<\/p>\n

Today it is the space of my free, critical voice: I write essays about everything women are expected to be \u2014 about relationships<\/a> without a magic recipe, about motherhood without a manual, about bodies the whole world feels entitled to comment on, about good girls who grow into obedient women \u2014 and about witches, those wonderful women who dared to say “no”.<\/p>\n

I write from a feminist perspective, because I believe feminism means one thing: every woman’s freedom to choose what she is \u2014 and what she refuses to be.<\/p>\n

Out of these essays grew my book “\u017dena, majka, ve\u0161tica”<\/em> (Woman, Mother, Witch<\/em>).<\/p>\n

\"Mima<\/a>

In the background: Hayden Kays, “My God She’s Sexy”, Moco Museum, Amsterdam.<\/p><\/div>\n

I write in Serbian, English and German, because I live between two worlds and two sets of rules for women \u2014 and it is precisely in that gap that you can see most clearly which of those rules are truly ours, and which are merely learned.<\/p>\n

I don’t write often, and I don’t write by the rules. I write freely, and I write when I have something to say.<\/p>\n

If you’re here, chances are someone once called you “too much”: too loud, too demanding, too much yourself.<\/p>\n

Welcome.<\/p>\n

Around here, that’s a compliment.<\/p>\n

Biography<\/h1>\n

Mima S-Mama is an author, essayist and feminist, born in Serbia and living in Germany with her husband and daughter. She writes under a pen name whose “S” has changed its meaning over the years \u2014 Student Mama, Sofia’s Mama, “Super” Mama \u2014 following the roles she lived and the myths she dismantled along the way.<\/p>\n

She launched smama.blog in 2019 as the diary of a young mother between two cultures \u2014 and over seven years built it into something rare: an author’s platform in three languages, with essays read in Serbian, English and German.<\/p>\n

Her writing is known for combining an honest personal voice with sharp social critique \u2014 she writes about feminism, motherhood and relationships without sugar-coating and without self-pity, convinced that loving your life and questioning it is not a contradiction.<\/p>\n

She holds a degree in journalism and a master’s in media studies \u2014 an education that today lives on in her media criticism and writing on culture.<\/p>\n

Her first manuscript, “\u017dena, majka, ve\u0161tica”<\/em> (Woman, Mother, Witch<\/em>), distils years of writing about the roles a woman carries all at once \u2014 and the freedom to live them on her own terms.<\/p>\n

Contact<\/h2>\n
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For publishers, media and collaborations:<\/strong> mima@smama.blog<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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