Polish Queer Fem
Motherlands
This post was originally written in 2019, freshly after the disturbing events of July in my home town of Białystok, Poland. I'm Polish. I was born in Poland and grew up there. I left when I was 19 and 'settled' in London (in as much as my life can be called settled - as an activist, feminist and a migrant in a post-Brexit Britain). Mine was not an unhappy childhood. Yes, my parents took over a decade to finally divorce and the process was quite painful - especially for my mot