Tenderness & Freedom
'One day at school I saw a girl break a sharpener and cut herself with it. I did the same thing’
One of the participants in the Self.ie workshop grew up in a home with alcohol, drug abuse, violence and sexual abuse. When her mother died, she went to live with her aunt. She was often told that she was not grieving as she should. No one asked her if her relationship with her mother was one she wanted to mourn.
Older men whistled at the sight of twelve-year-old girls. ‘Why did they act like this? I’m a kid’.
When a classmate teases a friend, adults say: ‘After all, it’s a game, rough advances’. So how are boys supposed to know that their behaviour is not okay? Magda Szewciów* and Maciej Barczak**, co-founders of the anti-violence workshops for boys ‘Sztama’, talk to Łukasz Pilip
The concept of ‘foreplay’ is doomed to extinction. An ‘erotic encounter’ is another thing entirely
‘Just because I met someone when they were 25 doesn’t mean I know them forever. A person changes throughout their life, it’s good to see that in a relationship’. Interview with Alicja Długołęcka
Peeling potatoes also saves the world
When I start to feel guilty about not taking anyone in tonight because I need to rest, I pat this dear mummy sitting on my shoulder and reminding me: ‘You’ll sleep in your grave, there are people to be taken care of’, and I say: ‘Today, I’m the person I will take care of’. Interview with Julia Celejewska and Natalia Sarata
Psychodietician: We are more than fat tissue
‘We treat someone’s additional pounds as an invitation to criticise them. We criticise because we think obese people have no idea about their appearance and lack mirrors at home’. Interview with Magdalena Hajkiewicz-Mielniczuk, psychodietician and founder of the profile ‘Wiem, co jem’ [‘I Know What I’m Eating’].
