‘The Church is holy, but it’s made of sinful people’. This is how one of the characters in The Clergy (Kler) describes the institution of the Roman Catholic Church. Moreover, it is one of the main messages that the film’s director Wojciech Smarowski aimed to transmit to viewers, all while putting a special emphasis on paedophilia and church corruption …

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In her seminal book, The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir states that ‘one is not born a woman, but rather becomes one’. This citation is helpful to understand how the concept of gender is one which is performed and takes shape as it is acted over time, as argued by Judith Butler in Gender Trouble: …

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