Polina Bachlakova

Polina Bachlakova is a Canadian journalist and editor based in Copenhagen, with bylines in Al Jazeera, the BBC, openDemocracy, Unbias the News, and more.

She has a background as a sex workers’ rights activist and is the ex-editor-in-chief of Bedtime Magazine. Polina currently sits on the Board of Bedside Productions — a sex positive association in Denmark. She is a Fellow of 2024’s European Collaborative Journalism Programme.

Photo credit: Berta Vicente Salas

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25/04/2025

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