a journal of queer studies

Rafał Majka holds a PhD in culture studies from SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities (2017). He also graduated in English Philology from the University of Silesia (2006) and did a postgraduate study in Gender Studies at the University of Warsaw (2011). In 2021 he completed another postgraduate studies – Trendwatching & Future Studies at the AGH University of Science and Technology in Cracow. He did research visits in Marseille, France (2021, Aix-Marseille Université, France), in Berlin, Germany (2015, John F. Kennedy Institute, Freie Universität), in Edmonton, Canada (2005, University of Alberta), and in Boston, Massachusetts, USA (2008, 2012, Massachusetts Institute of Technology). In 2019 he published a book on contemporary left philosophies of social change entitled Teraźniejsze przyszłości. Współczesne wyobraźnie lewicowe [Futures Present. Contemporary Left Imaginaries]. He has published numerous articles and co-edited a few books/joural issues. For over a decade he has been active in leftist, feminist, LGBT and queer social movements.