Abstract

Poland is the biggest country in the European Union without any regulations concerning same-sex partnerships. Neither does it offer any recognition of queer parenthood. With its very conservative, heteronormative, cisgender, and nuclear vision of family and understandings of kinship, it makes the life of queer parents and their children incredibly hard and precarious. In this article, I focus on case studies of queer parenthood to demonstrate the complex intersections of state understanding of ‘appropriate’ family and ‘fit’ parents, limits of its legal regulations, and the materiality of living of queer parents and their, sometimes stateless, children. My main aim is to analyze what happens when the hetero and cisnormative logic of reproduction embedded in state legislation is questioned by queers who do reproduce. My additional argument concerns the importance of acknowledging geopolitical location as a factor influencing the formation and living experiences of queer families to avoid false generalizations based on research conducted in (western) contexts with more queer-inclusive legal regulations.

摘要

波兰是欧盟最大的国家，对同性伴侣没有任何规定。它也没有提供任何对同性恋父母身份的认可。凭借其非常保守、异性恋、顺性别和核心的家庭愿景以及对亲属关系的理解，它使酷儿父母及其孩子的生活变得异常艰难和不稳定。在本文中，我将重点关注酷儿父母身份的案例研究，以展示国家对“合适”家庭和“合适”父母的理解、法律法规的限制以及酷儿父母及其有时无国籍的生活的重要性， 孩子们。我的主要目的是分析当州立法中嵌入的异性和顺式生殖逻辑受到确实生殖的酷儿质疑时会发生什么。