Tag: racism

  • What does a Pole think when they hear ‘Muslim’?

    What does a Pole think when they hear ‘Muslim’?

    ‘The trivialization of Islamophobia is like trivial nationalism, one that is unconscious. It is the air we breathe. The language, the currency, the symbol. It surrounds us so much that we no longer pay attention to it, reinforcing our ethnic identity. Islamophobia functions in the same way in Poland. We have stopped reacting to it’

  • Does it make sense to celebrate Black History Month in Poland?

    Does it make sense to celebrate Black History Month in Poland?

    “Once, a strange woman at a bus stop put her hand in my hair, I instinctively grabbed her nose. She stopped and asked, surprised, why I had done it. I answered by asking her the same question”. A conversation with Noemi Ndoloka Mbezi.

  • Cut his hair off in solidarity with Iranian women. A story of an Iranian living in Poland

    Cut his hair off in solidarity with Iranian women. A story of an Iranian living in Poland

    “I knew I had to leave Iran. I’ve known it since I turned fourteen” – says Michał Rezazadeh, who creates Irańczyk w Polsce [Iranian in Poland] channel and fanpage living in Warsaw.