Ewa Majewska is a feminist philosopher and critical theorist of culture. An associate professor of the SWPS University in Warsaw, she works on feminist antifascism, counterpublics, and the dialectics of the weak. She is PI in the queer studies/archive theory project ‘Public against their will: The production of subjects in the archives of Hiacynt actions’ (with NCN funding). She has published seven books, including the recent Feminist Antifascism: Counterpublics of the Common (Verso, 2021), and articles in many journals and collected volumes.

Her PhD in social philosophy (2007) and recent habilitation in cultural studies are from the University of Warsaw. She has held visiting /temporary positions in Berlin, Warsaw, Kraków, Berkeley, and was a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Human Sciences (IWM) in Vienna. In 2022, she co-curated the exhibition of Mariola Przyjemska’s work at the Zachęta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw. She is a committee member of the Utopian Studies Society, a European interdisciplinary association devoted to the study of utopianism in all its forms. For many years she was an activist in the alterglobalist, noborder, feminist, and LGBTQ+ movements.

In her work, she makes solid links with Chicana feminists, including Gloria Anzaldúa, to address the brutalism that has been made visible by the events on the Eastern border of Poland—since 2004 also the Eastern border of the European Union—with all its tragic repercussions and many deaths. The Polish–Belarusian border now is a zone that’s a state of exception, with dozens of deaths and hundreds of people missing, mainly non-European refugees trying to cross the border.

She has also published poetry, notably Coronafuga: Dating in Times of the Pandemic.