Aleksandra (Ola) Kamińska

English biography of Aleksandra (Ola) Kamińska

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Ola is a queer-feminist scholar, writer, creative and publisher, investigating topics of girlhood, queer time and related narratives in comic and youth culture. She holds a PhD from the University of Warsaw in Gender Studies and Queer Theory and is currently a member of the Gender/Sexuality Research Group at the American Studies Centre, University of Warsaw. In 2015, Ola founded the DIY queer-feminist zine collective Girls and Queers to the Front together with her best friend, Agata Wnuk. They organize workshops, events and publish zines in Polish and English, each centering a different topic that is examined through the lens of hundreds of participants and authors. Ola is invested in creating safer spaces of expression for the queer community and together with her partner, photographer and curator Katarzyna Szenajch, she co-created 100Lesb.com. Ola is part of the Warsaw based queer post-punk project NANA, which can be heard in this episode.

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