Agnieszka Graff

{{Short description|Polish writer (1970)}}

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Agnieszka Graff-Osser (born 1970 in Warsaw{{Cite book|author=Graff|first=Agnieszka|title=Feministki. Własnym głosem o sobie.|isbn=83-915460-5-5|editor-last=Walczewska|editor-first=Stanisława|pages=89–108|chapter=Dziewczyna opozycjonisty|year=2005}}) is a Polish writer, translator, commentator, feminist and women's and human rights activist. She studied at Oxford University and Amherst College (Massachusetts, United States), and graduated from the School of Social Sciences at the Polish Academy of Sciences. She completed her PhD in English literature in 1999.{{Citation|url=http://www.asc.uw.edu.pl/faculty_pl.html|title=Pracownicy|access-date=2021-03-29|archive-date=2016-05-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160522105815/http://www.asc.uw.edu.pl/faculty_pl.html|url-status=dead}} In 2001, she published World without women, which was nominated to Nike Award in 2002. She works at the Warsaw University's Institute of the Americas and Europe and gives lectures on gender studies.{{Cite web|url=https://usosweb.uw.edu.pl/kontroler.php?_action=katalog2/osoby/pokazOsobe&os_id=62816|title=Agnieszka Graff-Osser - Studenci, pracownicy - Uniwersytet Warszawski - USOSweb|website=usosweb.uw.edu.pl|language=pl|access-date=2017-07-24}}

Her essays and features have been published in "Gazeta Wyborcza" (mass circulation liberal newspaper), "Literatura na Świecie" ("World Literature") and "Zadra" ("The Thorn", a feminist magazine).

She is a co-founder of women's organisation Porozumienie Kobiet 8 Marca (8 March Women's Coalition) with which she organises the annual Manifa Warsaw women's march.{{Cite web|title=Kongres Kobiet|url=https://kongreskobiet.pl/pl-PL/text/o_nas/rada_programowa|language=pl|access-date=2021-03-29|archive-date=2016-06-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160610215339/https://www.kongreskobiet.pl/pl-PL/text/o_nas/rada_programowa|url-status=dead}} From 2007 to 2010, Graff was a member of the Precedent Cases Programme's Programme Board at the International Helsinki Federation For Human Rights.{{cite web|url=http://www.hfhr.org.pl/precedens/ogolne/rada-programowa.html|title=Rada Programowa|language=pl|access-date=2021-03-29|archive-date=2019-01-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190120093806/http://www.hfhr.org.pl/precedens/ogolne/rada-programowa.html|url-status=dead}}

Graff is Jewish.{{cite web|url=http://www.tygodnikprzeglad.pl/szatani-badzcie-czynni|title=Szatani, bądźcie czynni!|publisher=Tygodnik Przegląd|date=26 July 2007|access-date=25 July 2015|language=pl}} She was the wife of the photographer and French press correspondent Bernard Osser with whom she has a son, who was born in 2008.{{Cite web|url = https://www.tygodnikpowszechny.pl/wyprawa-nie-wyprawka-24942|title = Wyprawa, nie wyprawka {{!}} Tygodnik Powszechny| date=23 November 2014 }} In February 2021, she came out, by writing on her social media that she is in a committed relationship with a woman.{{cite web| url = https://www.se.pl/wiadomosci/gwiazdy/znana-pisarka-zrobila-coming-out-agnieszka-graff-aa-jSd5-Atkz-JFDb.html | title = Słynna polska pisarka zrobiła coming out|language=pl}} In the March–April issue of the only Polish LGBTIA magazine, Replika, Graff and her partner, the cultural anthropologist Magdalena Staroszczyk, talked more about their relationship and queer identities.{{Citation|last=Dunin|first=Kinga|title=Coming out: znana feministka Agnieszka Graff i jej partnerka Magda Staroszczyk – pierwszy wspólny wywiad {{!}} Replika Online|date=2021-03-29|url=https://replika-online.pl/coming-out-niekonczaca-sie-historia/|work=Replika|issue=90|language=pl-PL|access-date=2021-03-30}}