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 […]
On November 30, I had the pleasure to take part in a webinar organized by Women in Development Europe (WIDE+) – the European network of feminist activists, scholars, and women’s rights organizations – Joint strategies of LGBTQI* rights and feminisms. This 90-minute conversation focused on the question of how feminist and LGBTQIA movements can (and often do) come together to address violence and discrimination (including police and state brutality) as well as issues of access […]
Much has been said about the treacherous year that was 2020. We loved discussing its awfulness as much as we enjoyed saying our final goodbyes to it. Some outlets have even taken extra steps to remind us what exactly happened in this rollercoaster of a year, all with varying results. A few weeks ago, Netflix released its mockumentary Death to 2020, in which celebrities posing as fictional affluent figures take us through the last 12 […]
After the Black Lives Matter protests re-ignited in the United States, sparked by demonstrations following the brutal murder of George Floyd by three Minneapolis police officers, the fight for justice and dignity of Black people, and liberation from oppression, inspired millions around the world. Across the globe, Black people and their allies gather to commemorate every single life lost to racism, oppressive policing, police brutality, as well as the continuous threat of white supremacy and […]
Named by Inside Philanthropy the thorniest topic of 2019 (with race as its runner-up), the concept of power has been in the center of philanthropic discussions for a number of years, fueling conversations on who remains excluded from decision-making processes, how the sector perpetuates systemic oppressions (including those it seeks to dismantle), and about the very nature of institutional giving, especially in times of great disregard for and criticism of wealthy people’s engagement and influence […]
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