How does vulnerability become a source of strength in resistance?

Is vulnerability really a weakness—or is it our most vital foundation for collective resistance?

In this episode of Dialogues for Resistance, we unpack the politics of vulnerability amidst escalating “anti-gender” mobilisations across Europe. Moving past the illusion of the self-sufficient individual, in this episode we talk about intersectional precarity & burnout and why risk and exhaustion are structured unequally across gender, race, disability, and borders—and why care must redistribute labour. Then we take up Ewa Majewska’s concept of ‘weak resistance to discuss how everyday, non-heroic practices of maintenance and care sustain political movements. We also talk about weaponised grievance and how reactionary politics co-opts the language of protection and victimhood to justify exclusion and harassment.

So join us and discover how reclaiming vulnerability as shared interdependence, rather than individual failure, provides the blueprint for durable coalitions and sustainable queer-feminist world-making.

Keyword: protest, social justice, everyday resistance, activism, fragility, humanity

Episode Citation: Kulpa, R., & Zabrzewska, A. (2026). Vulnerabilities: Weak Resistances and Precarity (S01E02). Podcasting Social Justice: Dialogues for Resistances (Podcast Series). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22048291

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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