Profile: Diana Burgerová

After watching Gilmore Girls in high school, Diana decided to study journalism. Her interest in the Global South gave her at least two formative experiences. In 2016, she documented stories of people who had survived a devastating 7.3-magnitude earthquake in Nepal in 2015. Later, she volunteered with People in Need on the coast of Kenya, in the village of Mtomondoni.

She enjoys longform stories and reportage, but also shorter fiction and children’s books. If you find the time to read, she recommends Gloria (by T. de Fombelle) and My Life as a Zucchini (by G. Paris).

As part of the Perspectives programme, she is currently working on a reportage series about the lives of single-parent families in Slovakia. She is also interested in the perspectives of minorities on the Velvet Revolution of 1989 in Czechoslovakia, though she is already growing tired of the interpretations of historical events offered by white men over sixty, as if no one else’s voice mattered. (No offense.)

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INÝ NOVEMBER: Chudobu Rómov si mýlime s ich neschopnosťou, etnicitu s diagnózou a spoločenský pôvod s hodnotou človeka, hovorí Denisa Havrľová © Kapitál
November 2025

ANOTHER NOVEMBER: We confuse the poverty of Roma people with their incompetence, ethnicity with diagnosis, and social origin with human value, says Denisa Havrľová.

The series of texts entitled Another November focuses on how people from various minorities perceived the Velvet Revolution and the post-revolutionary transformation of society. In this part, the author spoke with representatives of the Roma community. Although we recognized the Roma as a nationality in 1991, we have been making bad segregationist and discriminatory decisions about their lives in the new state system for at least as long—both at the political and social levels.
 

by Diana Burgerová
first published by Kapital:
INÝ NOVEMBER: Chudobu Rómov si mýlime s ich neschopnosťou, etnicitu s diagnózou a spoločenský pôvod s hodnotou človeka, hovorí Denisa Havrľová

ANOTHER NOVEMBER: Creating a multicultural society with people from Vietnam was not in Czechoslovakia's interest. They proved it themselves. © Kapitál
November 2025

ANOTHER NOVEMBER: Creating a multicultural society with people from Vietnam was not in Czechoslovakia's interest. They proved it themselves.

The series of texts entitled Another November focuses on how people from various minorities perceived the Velvet Revolution and the post-revolutionary transformation of society. In this part, the author spoke with representatives of the Vietnamese community. They talk about their harsh living and studying conditions in Czechoslovakia, but also about racist attacks and fear in the ensuing period of freedom, which some misunderstood.
 

by Diana Burgerová
first published by Kapital:
Iný november: Vytvárať s ľuďmi z Vietnamu multikultúrnu spoločnosť nebolo v československom záujme. Dokázali to sami

Iný november: Čarnogurským sa po revolúcii začalo vedomé politizovanie kvír ľudí. Neprestalo dodnes © Kapitál
November 2025

ANOTHER NOVEMBER: After the revolution, Čarnogurský began consciously politicizing the queer community. This continues to this day.

The series of texts entitled Another November focuses on how people from various minorities perceived the Velvet Revolution and the post-revolutionary transformation of society. In this part, the author spoke with two of the queer activists. They recount their struggle from the isolation of normalization, when homosexuality was pathologized to post-1989 activism. They criticize the slow progress in legislative equality in Slovakia, and emphasize that despite the efforts of activists, the situation for queer people today is alarming.
 

by Diana Burgerová
first published by Kapital:
Iný november: Čarnogurským sa po revolúcii začalo vedomé politizovanie kvír ľudí. Neprestalo dodnes

Mama aj otec v jednej osobe, paralyzujúci stres od výplaty k výplate. Jednorodičovské príbehy ľudí z celého Slovenska. © Kapitál
November 2025

Mother and father rolled into one, paralyzing stress from paycheck to paycheck. Single-parent stories from people across Slovakia

First part of the series about single parents. Women in their sixties recalled how they became single mothers years ago. Women in their thirties united by the need to heal the painful traumas of their childhood. What does it look like when the pressures of society, work demands, and motherhood are compounded by alcoholism, violence, a paralyzing fear of lack of resources, or a system that imposes traditional gender roles on women even when they are the sole breadwinners in the household?
 

by Diana Burgerová
first published by Kapital:
Mama aj otec v jednej osobe, paralyzujúci stres od výplaty k výplate. Jednorodičovské príbehy ľudí z celého Slovenska.