Podręczne mniejszości, skryte kolaborantki, prawdziwi Polacy
Convenient Minorities, Secret Collaborators, and True Poles

Summary/Abstract: The author of the article reflects on contemporary political violence against women and non-heteronormative people in Poland by using the concepts proposed by Arjun Appadurai in his article “Fear of Small Numbers.” The main goal is to show that opposition to “gender and LGBT ideology” cannot be fully explained if it is treated solely as a mechanism of reducing uncertainty in conditions of neoliberal capitalism. What is at stake in the political struggles over “gender” is the sense of regaining safety thanks to a clearly defined view of what constitutes the nation, which can acquire distinct boundaries through positioning sexual minorities and feminists as new others, non-Poles, or traitors. The article reconstructs this argument and builds upon it by presenting alternative explanations which involve geopolitical dynamics and the gender regime as a key variable.

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