Tomasz Kitlinski is an academic and activist who has studied with Julia Kristeva and Hélène Cixous. He served as a Fulbright scholar at the New School for Social Research. A member of Poland’s Green Party and trade unionist, Tomasz led 2009 protests against lay-offs at Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, and co-directed Lublin’s 2011 Transeuropa Festival with Jewish, refugee, LGBTIQ and Green activists and events.