Aleksandra Gajowy
Biographic Data
| ID | 126462 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aleksandra Gajowy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aleksandra |
| FAMILY NAME | Gajowy |
| SIGNATURE | GAJOWY A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College Dublin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9860-5723 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Can CEE lesbian speak? Towards Central and Eastern European Lesbian Studies—an introduction
For several decades, there have been scholars across the region of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) contributing to the formulation of lesbian thought, yet these seem to rarely have been in conversation with one another, never collectively interrogating questions on what it means to write lesbian histories from the region relationally, enabling a mutual legibility across these disparate contributions. This is not simply to account for similaritie…
Where is the Muranów Lily? Unearthing Traces of Queer Jewishness in Contemporary Warsaw
In this essay I explore the possibility of an embodied, desiring encounter with traces of queer Jewishness in contemporary Warsaw. Examining Benny Nemer’s 2015 experimental audioguide Lilia z Muranowa (The Muranów Lily), commissioned by POLIN, the Museum of the History of Polish Jews, I propose a line of enquiry following a dybbuk-like haunting that the audioguide performs. In doing so, I investigate how desiring, affective speculation, legends a…
Queering Jewish Studies
This forum brings together eight scholars of various disciplines who take stock of queer perspectives on Jewish Studies, introduce new lines of research, and show the many ways in which queering Jewish Studies energizes the field. The authors also discuss the particular promise of Jewish trans studies as well as the nexus of queers and Jews in the age of rising populism. Overall, the forum serves as a primer for those interested in how to teach o…
Unstable Maps, Volatile Bodies
A Tiny War in a Human
Unearthing sociocultural histories of hiv / aids in Poland, this article focuses on heretofore silenced and dismissed narratives of the crisis and the ways in which hiv / aids in Poland posed a challenge to socialist rule, but also to Polish society and the state in the early days of neoliberal democracy. I focus on the first decade of the aids epidemic in Poland (1985–1996) to investigate how narratives of the crisis made palpable people’s anxie…
And Sex
Focusing on Krzysztof Jung’s explicitly homoerotic 1970s drawings and placing them in the wider context of the artist’s practice, this article investigates the possibilities of re-inscribing narratives of desire into the grim landscape of queer histories in socialist Poland, still palpable today. It argues that as stories of queer desire are almost exclusively linked with shame, trauma, and suffering, they contribute to victimisation of queer peo…
Queer-Feminist Hospitality
Insects, Threads, and Urinals
The 2019 retrospective of the work of the Polish artist Krzysztof Jung (1951–1998) at the Schwules Museum in Berlin positioned the artist as unequivocally gay in his preoccupation with the male nude. The artist’s body-oriented practice, however, expands far beyond strictly defined homosexual desire. In this article, I discuss complex entanglements of polymorphous desires present in Jung’s work. Introducing the narratives of prostheses, quantum en…
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Insects, Threads, and Urinals
The 2019 retrospective of the work of the Polish artist Krzysztof Jung (1951–1998) at the Schwules Museum in Berlin positioned the artist as unequivocally gay in his preoccupation with the male nude. The artist’s body-oriented practice, however, expands far beyond strictly defined homosexual desire. In this article, I discuss complex entanglements of polymorphous desires present in Jung’s work. Introducing the narratives of prostheses, quantum en…
And Sex
Focusing on Krzysztof Jung’s explicitly homoerotic 1970s drawings and placing them in the wider context of the artist’s practice, this article investigates the possibilities of re-inscribing narratives of desire into the grim landscape of queer histories in socialist Poland, still palpable today. It argues that as stories of queer desire are almost exclusively linked with shame, trauma, and suffering, they contribute to victimisation of queer peo…
Queer-Feminist Hospitality
Unstable Maps, Volatile Bodies
A Tiny War in a Human
Unearthing sociocultural histories of hiv / aids in Poland, this article focuses on heretofore silenced and dismissed narratives of the crisis and the ways in which hiv / aids in Poland posed a challenge to socialist rule, but also to Polish society and the state in the early days of neoliberal democracy. I focus on the first decade of the aids epidemic in Poland (1985–1996) to investigate how narratives of the crisis made palpable people’s anxie…
Where is the Muranów Lily? Unearthing Traces of Queer Jewishness in Contemporary Warsaw
In this essay I explore the possibility of an embodied, desiring encounter with traces of queer Jewishness in contemporary Warsaw. Examining Benny Nemer’s 2015 experimental audioguide Lilia z Muranowa (The Muranów Lily), commissioned by POLIN, the Museum of the History of Polish Jews, I propose a line of enquiry following a dybbuk-like haunting that the audioguide performs. In doing so, I investigate how desiring, affective speculation, legends a…
Queering Jewish Studies
This forum brings together eight scholars of various disciplines who take stock of queer perspectives on Jewish Studies, introduce new lines of research, and show the many ways in which queering Jewish Studies energizes the field. The authors also discuss the particular promise of Jewish trans studies as well as the nexus of queers and Jews in the age of rising populism. Overall, the forum serves as a primer for those interested in how to teach o…
Can CEE lesbian speak? Towards Central and Eastern European Lesbian Studies—an introduction
For several decades, there have been scholars across the region of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) contributing to the formulation of lesbian thought, yet these seem to rarely have been in conversation with one another, never collectively interrogating questions on what it means to write lesbian histories from the region relationally, enabling a mutual legibility across these disparate contributions. This is not simply to account for similaritie…
Gender Studies (6 works) · Queer (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · European history and politics (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · History (4 works) · Narrative (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Law (3 works)