Moving At Their Pace

Activism with Children

Authors

  • Magdalena Olszanowski Concordia University, Dawson College

Author Biography

  • Magdalena Olszanowski, Concordia University, Dawson College

    Magdalena Olszanowski is a writer, artist, and educator in Montreal. She received her PhD in Communication Studies from Concordia University where she is now part time faculty. She also teaches at Dawson College. An exhibiting new media and video artist as well as a writer, she has written for, or been featured in, publications such as CBC, esse, Feminist Media Studies, Visual Communication Quarterly, n+1, nomorepotlucks, and showcased her work at SXSW and ISEA among others. Currently, she is working on a bildungsroman about a Jewish filmmaker set in 1970s Poland. She was born in Warsaw, Poland and now lives in Montreal, Canada with her partner, two children and neighbourhood cats. 

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Published

2025-12-03

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Vol. 46 No. 3 (2025): Liveable Futures: Radical Imagination as Method // Radical Imagination as Survival

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Liveable Futures: Radical Imagination as Method // Radical Imagination as Survival

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