What does queer migration look like day to day? Paperwork, barriers, and belonging...

In this episode of Dialogues for Resistance, we move beyond headlines about migration “crises” and listen instead to the lived realities of queer, trans, feminist, and LGBTIQ+ people displaced by anti-gender politics. We ask what happens when staying becomes impossible — and when arrival does not yet mean safety.

Through stories of persecution, border violence, asylum interviews, racism, bureaucracy, and life in exile, the episode explores how displacement is shaped not only by movement across borders, but by paperwork, waiting, fear, and the constant demand to prove one’s suffering.

But this is not only a story of harm. It is also a story of care, friendship, and resistance: of migrant-led Pride spaces, queer refugee collectives, mutual aid, and “bubbles of safety” built when institutions fail.

Join us for an episode about borders, belonging, survival — and the solidarities that make life possible in exile.

Keyword: refugees, migrants, queer migrants, displacement, political repression, anti-feminism, anti-LGBTIQ+, homophobia, transphobia, racism, authoritarian regimes

Episode Citation: Kulpa, R., & Zabrzewska, A. (2026). Vulnerabilities: Weak Resistances and Precarity (S01E04). Podcasting Social Justice: Dialogues for Resistances (Podcast Series). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22048374

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CITING THE PODCAST SERIES:

Kulpa, R., & Zabrzewska, A. (2026). Podcasting Social Justice: Dialogues for Resistances (Podcast Series). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21676257