#Maria Konopnicka

[radykalny-feminizm]

On the left: Maria Konopnicka (1842 – 1910) who was a Polish poet, novelist, children's writer, translator, journalist, critic, and activist for women's rights and for Polish independence.

On the right: Maria Dulębianka (1861 – 1919) who was a Polish artist and activist, notable for promoting women’s suffrage and higher education.

These women spent over 20 years together. They lived together and were buried together according to Dulębianka's last wish. Unfortunately their bodies were separated after 8 years.

Dulębianka could be called "a butch" according to today's terminology. Konopnicka was more stereotypically feminine.

They were a lesbian couple.

It's a fact that has been denied for a long time (a classic "they were very close friends" case). Konopnicka was considered a great patriot and conservatives claimed that suggesting that she was in a relationship with a woman is "disrespectful". Some people still think so to this day, but her relationship with Dulębianka is confirmed and recognized by most historians.

[polish-art-tournament]

paintings* round 1 poll 82

about the artist: Since 2005 he is publisher and editor-in-chief of DIK Fagazine, and has founded the Queer Archives Institute in 2015

Maria Konopnicka (from the series "Poczet"), 2017:

propaganda: I will just quote some text from the curatorial text by Fanny Hauser and Viktor Neumann accompanying the "Poczet" exhibition at Kunst(Zeug)Haus, Rapperswil, Switzerland (23 August - 1 November 2020), because they talk about it better than I could: "The Polish word “poczet” once referred to the smallest unit of the army of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1569-1795), and later came to describe a group of people of common descent or performing a specific role. Most importantly, the word relates to a series of portraits of Polish kings and queens (since 966 to 1795), arranged chronologically and conceived as pictorial representation of Polish history [...]. [...] The artist’s employment of portraiture, traditionally considered a bourgeois genre, constitutes a crucial part of his practice as a means to paraphrase and inquire the aesthetics of a variety of historic artistic movements and practices. Adding another perspective to the common visual codes and historical narratives, this contextual shift becomes a subversive strategy to challenge dominant modes of representation and commemorates those who have been subjected to the patrilinear logic of history. Radziszewski’s "Poczet" is a bold retake on the idea of the formation of national identity as demonstrated by pictures that testify to (or rather construct) the continuity of royal power, exercised by heterosexual, cisgendered males and perpetuated through royal marriages. Forming a gallery of twenty-two ancestral portraits of non-heteronormative Polish figures of the past millennium from fields including politics, science, literature and art, "Poczet" deliberately reaffirms the protagonists’ expression of queerness that has been suppressed or erased from their historiography to a large extent."

The series "Ali", 2015-2017:

propaganda: Taken inspiration from Picasso in terms of style (specially like the nod to Guernica), to pay homage to the real life figure Agbola O’Brown (pseudonym “Ali”), a Nigerian-born jazz musician and the sole black combatant of the Warsaw Uprising, right wing assholes like to definine who and who not belongs, so this work really speaks to me as a counter work.

[thefugitivesaint]

Jan Marcin Szancer (1902-1973), ''O Kraksnoludkach i o sierotce Marysi'' by Maria Konopnicka, 1996 Source

[lektury]

czytam tą nową biografię konopnickiej i niezła antysemitka z niej była

i tak co kilkanaście stron…

[ineffablelvrs]

myślę ze tak jak to jest z homofobicznymi rodzicami którzy kończą z gejowymi dzieciami to tak samo jest z polska która skończyła z mnóstwem gejowych ważnych postaci pod względem kulturowym typu np słowacki konopnicka albo chopin

[colour-of-dream]

Maria Konopnicka - "Na grobie rycerz"

Na grobie rycerz z dawnych lat Z wzniesioną głową stoi; Na czole hełm, na ręku tarcz, A pierś zamknięta w zbroi.

Wróżbę on kiedyś taką miał Za dni swych, za żywota, Że kiedy kośbę skończy śmierć, Ozwie się trąba złota.

I czeka rycerz wiek i dwa, Wśród śmierci stojąc żniwa, I słucha w dzień, i słucha w noc, Czy trąba się odzywa.

I rdza mogilna zjadła miecz, I hełm wyżarły deszcze, I w tarczę bije wiatr i śnieg, A rycerz czeka jeszcze...

I słońce mu wypiło wzrok, I mchy'wyrosły z zbroi, I pierś pęknięta sypie proch, A rycerz ciągle stoi...

I słucha w dzień, i słucha w noc, K-amienne czoło wznosi, A śmierć tuż przy nim chodzi wzdłuż I kosi... kosi... kosi...

[ma-pi-ma]

Arriva la primavera: i fiori imparano le loro forme colorate.

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Maria Konopnicka

[ankakonkel]

"Chowam w sercu smutek, ale na twarzy maluję uśmiech, bo nie chcę, by świat widział moje łzy."

Maria Konopnicka

[ciekawymarketing]

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[yourdailyqueer]

do you have any posts about lesbians that were alive in the 1800s, I’m interested in that era and have been looking for some <3

Those actually labelled as Lesbian (I also have some bisexuals and *trans people from that era as well if interested):

I'm not counting anyone born after 1880 as they most likely didn't get well known in that era etc.

After 1800

Emma Stebbins - Born 1815

Charlotte Cushman - Born 1816

Rosalie Sully and Anne Hampton Brewster - born 1818

Matilda Hay - Born 1820

Rosa Bonheur - Born 1822

Adelaide Anne Procter - Born 1825

Emily Blackwell - Born 1826

Louisa Baring - Born 1827

Emily Dickinson and Harriet Hosmer - Born 1830

Felicita Vestvali and Amelia Edwards - Born 1831

Margaret Macpherson Grant - Born 1834

Octavia Hill - Born 1838

Emma Crow - Born 1839

Sophia Jex-Blake - Born 1840

Maria Louise Pool and Ella Wesner - Born 1841

Maria Konopnicka - 1842

Anna Yevreinova and Sarah Bernhardt - Born 1844

Annie Hindle - Born 1845

Rose Cleveland - Born 1846

Josie Mansfield - Born 1847

Edwina Kruse - Born 1848

Marie Fillunger - Born 1850

Eugenie Schumann - Born 1851

Sophie Elkan, Isa Asp and Louise Abbéma - Born 1853

Mary Garrett - Born 1854

Palmire Dumont - Born 1855

Louise Catherine Breslau, Anna Elizabeth Klumpke and Elisabeth Marbury - Born 1856

Ika Freudenberg, Lilian Welsh, Selma Lagerlöf, Eleonora Duse and Ethel Smyth - Born 1858

Lucy Elmina Anthony, Margaret Todd and Elsie de Wolfe - Born 1859

Rachilde and Jane Addams - Born 1860

Edith Watson, Vida Dutton Scudder, Valborg Olander and Maria Dulębianka - Born 1861

Loie Fuller - Born 1862

Madeleine Zillhardt, Hélène van Zuylen and Mathilde de Morny - Born 1863

Vesta Tilley and Johanna Elberskirchen - Born 1864

Sophia Goudstikker and Winnaretta Singer - Born 1865

Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal - Born 1866

Władysława Habicht, Polyxena Solovyova and Evelina Haverfield - Born 1867

Lida Heymann and Edith Lake Wilkinson - Born 1868 

Caroline Spurgeon, Edith Craig, Emma Willits, Flora Murray - Born 1869

Ethel Richardson, Agnes Elisabeth Overbeck, Gabrielle Bloch and Princess Vera Gedroits - Born 1870

Cicely Hamilton, Violet Gordon-Woodhouse, Elizabeth Fisher Read, Celia Wray, Maude Adams - Born 1872

Louisa Garrett Anderson, Sara Josephine Baker, Maud Allan - Born 1873

Lilian Barker, Pepi Litman, Mary Dewson, Toupie Lowther, Romaine Brooks, Gertrude Stein, Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, Rachel Barrett and Amy Lowell - Born 1874

Élisabeth de Gramont - Born 1875

Alfhild Tamm, Sibilla Aleramo and Natalie Clifford Barney - Born 1876

Virginia Gildersleeve, Renée Vivien and Alice B. Toklas - Born 1877

Wanda Landowska and Alla Nazimova - Born 1879

[makingqueerhistory]

Selected Works from Maria Dulębianka

Maria Dulębianka was a Polish artist and activist. She was a trained painter, and became heavily involved in women's rights activism after meeting her lifelong companion, Maria Konopnicka. Dulębianka later became a writer and editor for feminist publications. You can find these works and more in our gallery!

[shenmaomaos]

tagged by: @kingleedo thank you sky!!!!

last song: zb1 - hana (already went triple platinum in my room)

favorite color: yellow

last book: i'm currently reading octavia e. butler's parable of the sower and a nonfiction book about maria konopnicka, a polish writer born in the 19th century - i'm not a fan of her work but she was wlw and had a very interesting life

last movie: vika! it's a documentary about the oldest polish dj, she's 87yo

last tv show: ep3 of cruel summer

sweet / savory / spicy: sweeeeeeet

relationship status: still waiting for seulgi to call me

last thing i searched: pizza rolls

current obsession: hello kitty nico FADELSTYLE THE DEATH OF MEEEEEEE, also jebewon as usual and ummm seulgi's hair

looking forward to: spring

favorite drink: tea

song playing 24/7: madison beer - make you mine / minnie & ten - obsession / evnne - badder love / adela - homewrecked / snsd - oscar / ive - flu / psychic fever - what's happenin / rescene - crash / dua lipa - training season DON'T MAKE ME PICK JUST ONE

current favorite character: my babies fadel and style who will soon be taken away from me and i will have to kms

fun activity i'd like to get into: actually sleeping at night

last video game: i played some fishdom earlier lol

last comic: crow time! everyone go read crow time by @secondlina! it has crows!

i tagged plenty of people last time so i'm skipping this part but feel free to consider yourself tagged if you want to do it! 🩵

[carpedzem]

polish fact of a day!! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

maria konopnicta - polish poet, novelist, writer, translator, journalist, critic. activist for women's rights and for polish independence. she divorced her husband and spent the rest of her life with her best friend maria dulębianka - they lived together, travelled together, worked together. konopnicka even started referring to herself as we, implying that dulębianka had been always by her side. they even shared a grave for a while - as dulębianka wished! - but later they got separated

were they together? who knows. konopnicka was a very private person, and even as a poem, she never revealed a lot from her own life. but they did live together 20 years and dulębianka never had as close relationship with any other man, or woman, in her life

[fluffyninja91]

1. top 5 Polish people

2. top 5 colours

3. top 5 noises

top 5 Polish people

Mikołaj Kopernik

Maria Skłodowska-Curie

Aleksander Fredro

Maria Konopnicka

Jurek Owsiak

top 5 colours

black

purple

red

green

grey

top 5 noises

bass guitar

rain

nightingale

crackling fire

violin

[everythingbluehere]

Preludium - Maria Konopnicka  Nie kocham jeszcze, a już mi jest drogi, Nie kocham jeszcze, a już drżę i płonę I duszę pełną o niego mam trwogi I myśli moje już tam, w jego progi Lecą stęsknione... I ponad dachem jego się trzepocą Miesięczną nocą... Nie kocham jeszcze, a ranki już moje O snach mych dziwnie wstają zadumane, Już chodzą za mną jakieś niepokoje, Już czegoś pragnę i czegoś się boję W noce niespane... I już na ustach noszę ślad płomienia Jego imienia. Nie kocham jeszcze, a już mi się zdaje, Że nam gdzieś lecieć, rozpłynąć sie trzeba, W jakieś czarowne dziedziny i kraje... Już mi się marzą słowicze wyraje Do tego nieba, Które gdzieś czeka, aż nas ukołysze W błękitną ciszę.