Join us for a series of online seminars with dr Barbara Dynda (PAN), Stephanie Niu, prof. elena pavan, and dr Aurora Perego (UniTrento, Italy). The series is curated and led by dr Aleksandra Kamińska (University of Warsaw) and Maria Halber.
The way we tell our stories remains crucial to the everlasting pursuit of inclusion and social transformation. Storytelling allows us to imagine otherwise: to reshape collective narratives and to give form to what has been overlooked or silenced. In every act of telling, there lies both an artistic and political gesture – the need to be present and seen.
𝙕𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙨, 𝙋𝙤𝙚𝙢𝙨, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙎𝙤𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙡 𝙈𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙨. 𝘾𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙎𝙥𝙖𝙘𝙚 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙈𝙖𝙧𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙯𝙚𝙙 𝙑𝙤𝙞𝙘𝙚𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙋𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙩 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝘿𝙞𝙜𝙞𝙩𝙖𝙡 𝙈𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙖 is a three-part online seminar series exploring independent publishing and digital expression as tools of solidarity, resistance, and community-building. Drawing from the legacies of publishing and activism, the series invites participants to consider how creative practices can make space for voices excluded from mainstream discourse, and how small-scale, self-organized publishing continues to serve as a ground for care, empowerment, and engagement. Bringing together scholars and creators, the series focuses on both the material and affective dimensions of DIY making and sharing work – how the printed page, the spoken word, and the digital screen each become realms of dialogue and dissent.
Open to all online via Zoom
𝟭𝟭/𝟭𝟰 𝟳 𝙋𝙈 𝘾𝙀𝙏: 𝙁𝙚𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙨𝙩 𝙌𝙪𝙚𝙚𝙧 𝙕𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙨, 𝙎𝙢𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙋𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝙋𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙚𝙨, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙏𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙨𝙖𝙩𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙘 𝙎𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙙𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙮 – 𝙙𝙧 𝘽𝙖𝙧𝙗𝙖𝙧𝙖 𝘿𝙮𝙣𝙙𝙖 & 𝙙𝙧 𝘼𝙡𝙚𝙠𝙨𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙧𝙖 𝙆𝙖𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙨𝙠𝙖
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89446764548?pwd=uu8l7gHT0SqacOJw54GulzNm1b0h7I.1
Dr Dynda’s seminar examines feminist and queer emancipatory practices in contemporary Polish culture through zines and poetry. These grassroots forms express lesbian, queer, and trans experiences while serving as acts of protest. DIY art and independent publishing highlight the communal dimensions of feminist-queer activism. Through the Girls and Queers to the Front collective—active in Poland yet collaborating internationally with authors such as Eileen Myles—we trace transatlantic exchanges within queer, feminist, and trans networks. Our discussion links theory with praxis, showing how small presses and poetry collections become transfeminist and queer sites of resistance against violence. Analyzing collective activist literary practices and selected works by Anouk Herman and Eileen Myles, we explore how the gothic, humor, and institutional critique foster resilience against patriarchal and transphobic systems.
Dr Barbara Dynda is a researcher and lecturer at the University of Warsaw and the Polish Academy of Sciences. She focuses on grassroots culture and feminist-queer politics in Poland. She is a recipient of a Duke University scholarship and NCN research grants. Dynda is a member of research projects: CCINDLE (Radboud University Nijmegen) and QUEER IT (Humboldt University in Berlin and University of Warsaw). She has published, among others, in Routledge, Toronto Press, and Atlantis. She is currently working on a book about Polish anarcho-feminist and queer zines, which will be published by University of Massachusetts Press in the fall of 2026.
Organizator/ka: Krytyka Polityczna