About us

Sociologist, academic lecturer, graduate of the Human Rights School HFPC, LGBT activist. Co-founder of Lambda Warszawa Association; coordinator of its support activities; co-founder of the Lambda Warszawa-run Helpline for Gays, Lesbians, Bisexuals, and Their Loved Ones and its employee from 1995 to 2015. Chair of the Association from 2007 to 2024 (with breaks). Coordinator of numerous projects carried out by Lambda Warszawa. Creator of the Lambda Warszawa Archive, which holds the largest collection of materials related to the history of Poland’s non-heteronormative community. Editor-in-chief of the QueerStoria magazine.

He is a director, dramaturg, educator, and creator in the field of intersecting social and performative arts. He holds a Master’s degree from the Das Arts/DAS Theatre program and completed THIRD, a program for artist-researchers. He has worked as a dramaturg at the National Old Theatre in Krakow and the Studio Theatre in Warsaw. Szymon is a co-creator of IPOP, a platform focused on queer pedagogy, and has a keen interest in HIV-related culture. His projects address topics such as transnational queer activism, migration, socially engaged performance, LGBTQ+ archives, and collective actions. In 2023, he received a City of Warsaw Scholarship for research on Bob Mellors and traces of British activism in Poland. He works between Warsaw and Amsterdam.

Anna Dżabagina (born 1990) – Ph.D., literary historian, Assistant Professor at the Department of Cultural Studies at SWPS University in Warsaw. Fulbright Visiting Fellow at Columbia University (2024-2025), Associate Research Fellow at CEFRES Prague (2024). She is a member of the Research Workshop on LGBT+ History and Identities at the UW, Board Member of QueerMuzeum Warsaw, and a lecturer at the Postgraduate Gender Studies Program at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Winner of the START Scholarship from the Foundation for Polish Science and Fulbright Senior Award, finalist of the Poznan Literary Award-Barańczak Scholarship. Author of the monograph Kalkowska. Biogeografa (Gdańsk 2020), she has published in “Aspasia”, “Teksty Drugie”, and “Pamiętnik Literacki” among others. She is currently working on a monograph „Tsardom of Women. Transnational History of Sapphic Modernism in Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian Literature”, as well as on queer biography of Narcyza Żmichowska.

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Art historian, curator at the Museum of Art in Łódź, and PhD candidate at the Department of History at Central European University in Vienna. He has curated and co-curated exhibitions at the Central Museum of Textiles in Łódź, the Latvian National Museum of Art in Riga, AdBK Nürnberg, and the Fondazione Pastificio Cerere in Rome. He is a fellow of the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure and DAAD TheMuseumsLab. His work has been published in e-flux, Krytyka Polityczna, Szum, and exhibition catalogs. He is a member of the program council of TRAFO in Szczecin and the International Association of Art Critics (AICA).

Historian and archivist, graduate of Gender Studies at the Institute of Literary Research, Polish Academy of Sciences. PhD candidate at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. Since 2020, she has been coordinating education and oral history at the Social Archives Center (Warsaw). Previously, she worked at the KARTA Center Foundation, where she coordinated oral history projects. Since 2022, she has served as the vice president of the Polish Oral History Association.

(Photo: Adam Stępiński / Social Archives Center)

Professor at the University of Warsaw, historian of ideas, academic teacher at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, University of Warsaw (Department of History of Ideas and Cultural Anthropology). Co-founder and head of the Research Lab on LGBT+ History and Identities at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, University of Warsaw.

Historian, film critic, and playwright. Doctor of Humanities in the field of history. Her research focuses on issues related to sexual violence during World War II and the forgotten victims of Nazism. Author of “Przemilczane. Seksualna praca przymusowa w czasie II wojny światowej” (2018) and “Mój Führerze! Ofiary przymusowej sterylizacji na Dolnym Śląsku w latach 1934-44” (2019). Winner of the Orfeo Iris Award 2021 from the ILGCN (International Rainbow Culture Network) for research and publications on the history of non-heteronormative people during World War II. For her book “Oni. Homoseksualiści w czasie II wojny światowej”, she received the “NIKE” Reader’s Award in 2022.

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Cultural studies scholar and artist. She conducts research on the experiences of non-heteronormative women during the PRL period and the political transformation in Poland. Between 2018 and 2019, she was a member of the research project CRUSEV – CRUISING THE SEVENTIES. She is an assistant professor at the Museum of Wola, a branch of the Museum of Warsaw, where she curated the exhibition “Kim Lee. Królowa Warszawy” (2023).

Publicist and biographer, LGBT activist, member of Krytyka Polityczna. Editor of the bimonthly Replika published by the Replika Foundation. He publishes in Zadra, Nowe Książki, and on the portal Inna strona. On Tok FM, he co-hosts the program Lepiej późno niż wcale.

Artist and activist. Graduate of the Warsaw School of Economics and the University of Arts in Poznań. In his artistic practice, he combines political actions and artistic gestures. He focuses on archiving at the intersection of art and activism (“Archiwa Niezgody”).

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