Tenderness & Freedom
They wanted to put a box of free sanitary pads in the school. They heard: Please do not spoil the image of the city
At one dormitory, the boys discovered used sanitary pads in the waste bin in the toilet. And then they taped those bloody sanitary pads to the door of the girls’ room. Interview with Dr Izabela Desperak
Solo evokes emotions. ‘Being single doesn’t mean we have to be pitied and wish for companionship’
‘We don’t have to excuse ourselves for being solo. We want to spend holidays or go on vacation on our own – there’s nothing wrong with that’. Interview with Anna Kluczyk and Joanna Kozera
Stress tires the body. ‘Acupressure mat? I am against anything that causes pain’.
I am in favour of a friendly cooperation with the body and not fighting with it – psychologist Agnieszka Mościcka-Teske, PhD, explains why it is good to listen to the body during stress
Female fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Masza fought to avoid being taken alive to her death
Postcards from dying
Somehow I can’t believe in pathos. The fact that these people could hug each other, hold hands, run together through the ruins, and it gave them a crumb of hope – yes, I can imagine that. Interview with writer Hanka Grupinska* by Paula Szewczyk
Some deceptive memory mechanism makes us lose touch with the present
‘Singing helped the women throw out difficult emotions like grief, anger, and disagreement with what they were facing in life. It was also an opportunity for meetings and an escape from the worries of everyday life’. Interview with Łukasz Machowski and Katarzyna Machałek
