Magdalena Smieszek
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Magdalena Smieszek
@magdalena-smieszek.bsky.social
International lawyer, humanitarian, academic. PhD in human rights law, been working around the world with the UN and more. Formulating and co-creating a system of cosmocitizenship. First let's learn and unlearn. https://linktr.ee/magdalena_smieszek
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Please join me and @profgsgilbert.bsky.social in London on Tues 3 June to hear about our new Practical Toolkit to protect people displaced across borders in the context of climate change & disasters. Kindly hosted by @biicl.bsky.social & Refugee Legal Support www.biicl.org/events/12024...
International Protection for People Displaced Across Borders in the Context of Climate Change and Disasters
Tuesday 3 June 2025, BIICL, Russell Square, London and Online
www.biicl.org
May 15, 2025 at 10:55 PM
🗓️ May 9 = Europe Day

🕯️May 8–9 = WWII Remembrance

🎂 Also, my birthday, so I’ve written about the history I was born into, the work I’ve chosen, and the future I still believe in. Read here, and if it resonates, please support, subscribe, and share.

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Why We Commemorate and Why We Give — And Why I'm Asking
These days we must not look away from the pain but look it right in the face and put our weight behind what is right and true.
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May 9, 2025 at 8:35 AM
The papal conclave is about to meet, Trump is joking about being Pope, and I have things to say about the order of love.
It’s part eulogy for Pope Francis, part critique of American politics, part meditation on sacred texts and philosophy, part confessional.
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For the Love of Pope Francis: A Universal Ordo Amoris
The "order of love" for the human family
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May 6, 2025 at 11:40 AM
The world passport has been used by refugees, artists, and celebrities, but has also been dismissed and ridiculed. First issued in 1954, it was a bold declaration that we belong to the planet. The history is incredible. We can go to the next level. Just published ↓

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Earth is our Country: Expanding the Case for World Passports
Taking action through self-sovereignty, radical collaboration, and planetary networks
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April 24, 2025 at 5:37 PM
This week, a "crew" of celebrities, including Katy Perry, took a suborbital trip with Blue Origin. It was promoted as empowering but who decides feminist achievement and who gets remembered as an accomplished woman taking up space? I vent a bit...
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Girls' Night in Outer Space vs. Astronomical Female Accomplishments
Reflections on Spectacle, Feminism, and Earthly Realities
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April 18, 2025 at 9:22 AM
On the anniversary of humanity’s first in-person journey into space, I reflect on what it meant then and what it means for us now….

Human Space Flight: Views from Orbit and Earthbound Reflections open.substack.com/pub/thecosmo...
Human Space Flight: Views from Orbit and Earthbound Reflections
The world's first cosmonauts amidst power, politics, and planetary belonging.
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April 12, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Want a world passport? Some already have it, but for the rest, we have to make a case for it, one that responds to statelessness, climate migration, and passport apartheid.

Today, the International Day of Conscience is a good time to start the conversation.

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The Case for World Passports—You Want One. But How?
Because what defines planetary citizenship if not an identity document that facilitates mobility and human rights.
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April 5, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Forced displacement isn’t peace. Economic control isn’t development. Trump's playbook is as old as empire. There’s a pattern and I call it the “perversion of peace and development” – my response to the international disorder in the days of Trump and what to do. open.substack.com/pub/thecosmo...
The Perversion of Peace and Development
International Disorder in the Days of Trump and What To Do About It
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February 26, 2025 at 9:55 AM
The Holocaust is remembered, as we watch Palestinians and Israelis released from captivity, and the message about liberation could not be more stark.

Liberation of Humanity: Auschwitz, The Hague, and the Promised Land open.substack.com/pub/thecosmo...
Liberation of Humanity: Auschwitz, The Hague, and the Promised Land
The Holocaust is remembered, as we watch Palestinians and Israelis released from captivity, and the message about liberation could not be more stark
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January 29, 2025 at 1:05 PM
New Year Blast-Off with Cybercitizenship and Space Exploration
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New Year Blast-Off with Cybercitizenship and Space Exploration
Time to explore our space — inner, outer, cyber, and juridical
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January 8, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Time to explore our space — inner, outer, cyber, and juridical.
One of the trickiest parts of formulating cosmocitizenship is figuring out how new laws and systems can serve this evolving formulation. But it’s 2025...

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January 4, 2025 at 3:56 AM
'Tis the season to recover humanity.

Rebirth of the Human-Self: Jesus the Archetype in the Land of Justice open.substack.com/pub/thecosmo...
December 28, 2024 at 2:46 AM
On Human Solidarity Day I launched The Cosmocitizens’ Tribune. Have a read, subscribe, and please share. open.substack.com/pub/thecosmo...
December 22, 2024 at 8:00 PM
Just got here. Gimme a minute ;)
December 22, 2024 at 7:37 PM