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Mária Botházi, writer, editor, university lecturer. In her popular drawings, she holds up a crooked mirror of our everyday life, how we live, what we Transylvanian Hungarians are like. Her themes are drawn from the everyday world: the vicissitudes of family life, the internal and external pressures of wanting to conform, the characteristics of womanhood, the limits of female-male roles, social expectations appear in them humorously, ironically, and with light playfulness. Mária Botházi was born in 1977 in Odorheiu Secuiesc, she lives in Cluj-Napoca since 1997. She completed her studies at the Department of Journalism of the Babeș-Bolyai University, (she studied journalism at Babeș-Bolyai University), where she is now the university lecturer. She has worked as a journalist for several Transylvanian newspapers and she is currently a publicist for the Főtér portal. In her popular scratches, her opinion gives us a mirror of our everyday lives, how we Hungarians live in Transylvania. Her themes are the global transformations of everyday life: the anomalies of family life, the internal and external constraints of being accepted, what does it mean to be a woman, the limitations of female-male roles, how social expectations appeared in her writings humorously , ironically, with easier playfulness. Her volumes published by Koinónia (Biorobot, 2019 and Boldogság juszt is a tiéd, 2016) were running through several editions. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx