#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

[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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[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!

[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

[daughterofhecata]

I did both @batmanisagatewaydrug‘s and @macrolit‘s Reading Bingos this year - was aiming for blackouts on both, didn‘t manage it for macrolit’s, but I did get a couple bingos.

Titles for each under the cut, full reading list here.

batmanisagatewaydrug:

translated book: Jonathan L. Howard: Johannes Cabal #1. Seelenfänger. [org. title: Johannes Cabal the Necromancer]

graphic novel: Vincent Burmeister, David Schraven: Unter Krähen. Aus dem Inneren der Republik. [no english title]

nonfiction: Anna Mirga-Kruszelnicka, Jekatyerina Dunajeva: Re-Thinking Roma Resistance throughout History: Recounting Stories of Strength and Bravery.

sequel: Luke Arnold: Fetch Phillips Archives #3. One Foot in the Fade.

poetry collection: Rainer Maria Rilke: Gedichte [herausgegeben vom Hamburger Lesehefte Verlag]

published before 2010: Faye Kellerman: Die Schwingen des Todes [org. title: Stone Kiss]

memoir: Theodor Michael: Deutsch Sein und Schwarz Dazu. Erinnerungen eines Afro-Deutschen. [engl. title: Black German. An Afro-German Life in the Twentieth Century.]

oldest on TBR: Anne Frank: Tagebuch der Anne Frank. 14. Juni 1942 bis 1. August 1944. [org. title: Het Achterhuis/engl. title: The Diary of a Young Girl]

author from a different country: Alexander Wolkow: Zauberland-Reihe #1. Der Zauberer der Smaragdenstadt. [org. title: Волшебник изумрудного города/engl. title: The Wizard of the Emerald City]

romance: Iny Lorentz: Die Feuerbraut [no english title i could find]

essay collection: Scaachi Koul: One Day We‘ll All Be Dead And None Of This Will Matter.

fantasy: Austin Chant: Peter Darling

novella: Maria Konopnicka: Der Danziger Mendel [org. title: Mendel Gdański/no english title]

debut author: Xiran Jay Zhao: Iron Widow

ghosts or monsters: Jennifer Giesbrecht: The Monster of Elendhaven

short stories: Hendrik Buchna, Marco Sonnleitner, u.a.: Die Drei ??? und der Zeitgeist [no english title; collection of short stories in the german continuation of Robert Arthur’s Three Investigators stories]

banned book: Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird

one word title: K. Ancrum: Darling

published before 2000: Josef Bor: Theresienstädter Requiem [org. title: Terezínské Rekviem/engl. title: The Terezín Requiem]

2022 release: Jonathan Kellerman: City of the Dead. An Alex Delaware Novel.

literary fiction: Sylvia Plath: The Bell Jar / Jack Kerouac: On The Road (I’m pretty sure at least one of them qualifies)

YA: Jonathan Stroud: Bartimäus #1. Das Amulett von Samarkand. [org. title: The Bartimaeus Trilogy #1. The Amulet of Samarkand.]

reread: Franz Kafka: Das Urteil [engl. title: The Judgement]

400+ pages: James Ellroy: L.A. Confidential. Stadt der Teufel. [org. title: L.A. Confidential]

macrolit:

Classic Author A/B/C: -

Gothic Fiction: -

Fan Fiction: [no specific work]

published between 1960-1990: Václav Havel: Vernissage [org. title: Vernisáž/engl. title: Unveilling]

Classic Author P/Q/R: Sylvia Plath: The Bell Jar

Biography or Non-Fiction: Justin Fenton: We Own This City. A True Story of Crime, Cops, and Corruption.

Classic Author S/T/U: -

Young Adult: Christina Henry: Lost Boy

Classic Author G/H/I: -

Detective, Horror or Suspense: Tess Gerritsen: Die Chirurgin. [org. title: The Surgeon]

Philosophy or Literary Criticism: Judith Butler: Gender Trouble. Feminism and the Subversion of Identity.

Classic Author M/N/O: -

Harlem Renaissance: -

Published between 1990-2022: Ocean Vuong: On Earth We‘re Briefly Gorgeous

Book of Short Stories:  Don Winslow: Broken

published between 1920-1960: Jerzy Andrzejewski: Warschauer Karwoche [org. title: Wielki tydzień/engl. title: Holy Week]

Classic Author D/E/F: Leslie Feinberg: Stone Butch Blues

Children‘s Literature: [any one of the twenty Three Investigator‘s books I read this year]

Poetry or Play: Bożena Keff: Ein Stück über Mutter und Vaterland [org. title: Utwór o Matce i Ojczyźnie/engl. title: A Piece about Mother and Fatherland]

Graphic Novel: Elfriede Jelinek, Nicolas Mahler: Der fremde! störenfried der ruhe eines sommerabends der ruhe eines friedhofs. [no english title]

Classic Author J/K/L: Jack Kerouac: On The Road

Essays or Satire: Scaachi Koul: One Day We‘ll All Be Dead And None Of This Will Matter.

Published before 1920: Maria Konopnicka: Der Danziger Mendel [org. title: Mendel Gdański/no english title]

Classic Author V/W/X/Y/Z: Jiří Weil: Leben mit dem Stern [org. title: Život s hvězdou/engl. title: Life With A Star]

[seulflirts]

"Lecz ja ze świata całego ogromu

Jedno jedyne serce obrałam sobie..."

Maria Konopnicka, Wieczór już

[chicago-geniza]

Looking at some snippets from the STER jubilee issue on Eliza Orzeszkowa and it's got. Fucking. Zofia Sadowska citing Maria Konopnicka. This is turn-of-the-century Polish lesbian culture

[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.