Queer Kinship on the Edge? Families of Choice in Poland

Joanna Mizielinska holds DSs (habilitation) in Sociology, University of Warsaw, and a PhD in Women's Philosophy, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of Polish Academy of Sciences. She was a Fulbright scholar at Princeton University working under the mentoring of Professor Judith Butler, CIMO researcher at the Christina Institute, University of Helsinki, and visiting scholar at the Centre for Baltic and East European Studies, Soedertoern University and the Department of Gender Studies at Rutgers University. She currently works as Associate Professor at the Institute of Psychology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Her interests concentrate on queer theory, queer kinship, and sociology of gender, sexuality, and families. Recently, she was a Principal Investigator of the project "Families of Choice in Poland" (2013-2016) and Co-Investigator in "Doing Right(s): Innovative Tools for Professionals working with LGBT Families" (2016-2020) and "Queer(y)ing Kinship in the Baltic Region" (2016-2021). She is the author of Different or ordinary? Families of choice in Poland (2017), Sex/Body/Sexuality (2007), and (De)Constructions of Femininity (2004) and co-author of In Different Voices. Families of Choice in Poland (2017) and Families of Choice in Poland. Family Life of Nonheterosexual Persons (2015). She is co-editor of De-Centring Western Sexualities (Ashgate, 2011 and Routledge, 2016).