Tenderness & Freedom
I wish my sons would call me ‘mum’, but they can’t. Maybe they still remember me as a tough guy?
Małgorzata spent 50 years living as a man, even though she had long known she wasn’t one. When she told her family: ‘I’m a woman, I’m changing, I’m going to have surgery’, it was a shock to her sons. Mateusz was afraid of what his life would be like with ‘a father like that’.
Wartime period. ‘You can’t stop thinking that everyone is about to see you bleeding’
Customs officers cried as they told stories of women who felt ashamed and humiliated but could not ask for fresh underwear or a sanitary pad
Embroidery and the feminine cause. Ewa Cieniak’s works bear traces of violence and rape
Ewa Cieniak uses fabric and thread differently than many of her predecessors. She creates forms strongly associated with the body. And with blood
26 minutes that will reduce stress and relax the mind. "Such seemingly nothing, but space"
Market Square in Wroclaw, outside noise, smog. Inside, silence, soft chirping of birds, soft grass imported from Belgium. The Sleep Café brings instant calm to overburdened senses and regeneration.
Charity is contagious. And it works like a miracle drug: it calms, lowers blood pressure and improves sleep
When one person bought another person a coffee in a line, that gesture was repeated by more than two hundred other people’. A conversation with Marta Zaraska, author of the book ‘Growing Young: How Friendship, Optimism and Kindness Can Help You Live to 100’
