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It has been almost a year and a half since my last blog post. This recent realization came with an intense feeling of embarrassment, a feeling usually buried deeply under a growing number of anxieties sneakily hidden between the hours of every working day. This embarrassment, however, was not necessarily linked to lack of producing something of value – after all, there have been other areas where much of my attention has gone to. From […]

Last night, on the eve of Trans Day of Visibility, while browsing through a collection of my posts about trans health, legal gender recognition and my own experiences, I again found myself reflecting on the very notion of visibility, and what it means to me at this current moment. Visibility is not a simple statement of fact. It is an ever changing state of being which can manifest in many different ways. For me, visibility […]

Zaczyna się – jak wiele rzeczy w moim życiu – ambitnie, choć bez planu. W aktywizm wrzuca mnie chęć poznania innych podobnych do mnie osób. W połowie pierwszej dekady XXI wieku wydostaję się z mojego rodzinnego miasta i ląduję w stolicy. Trafiam na studia, ale większość czasu spędzam albo w bibliotece, albo zamknięty sam w mieszkaniu. Mam szczęście i niesamowity przywilej, że rodzice chcą za to wszystko płacić. Próbuję szukać pracy, ale nie jestem w […]

In a few weeks, I will be celebrating the fifth anniversary of my move from community-led civil society to private philanthropy. In these last few years, I have learned a tremendous amount, especially about funding practices and how they are shaped. Becoming someone ‘on the other side’ helped me dive into what grant-makers value in relation to strategy as well as how the grantees’ work and its outcomes fits into a broader vision. On the […]

Since my late teenage years, I have longed for a method to organize my books. From the large collection I have accumulated in my early twenties, and to this day store at my mother’s house, to the current somewhat smaller, heavily curated and restricted to two wide IKEA Billy shelfs (which despite my commitment to minimize is in a constant state of overflow). I tried many of them – a Windows XP program which promised […]

A few weeks ago, we already knew that 2022 was not going to be off to a good start. News of a new COVID-19 variant emerged and soon many of us were affected by it. As I write these words, in the United States more than 150,000 new infections are reported every day, half of which recorded in my home state, and worldwide rates are even more staggering, if not depressing. This new found state […]