She was born in the town of Wałbrzych in Lower Silesia, south-western Poland, to father Janusz Bator and mother Elżbieta (née Borowiecka).

Her doctoral dissertation concerned the philosophical aspects of the feminist theory and discourse relating to psychoanalysis and postmodernism.

[4] In the years 1999–2008 she worked as an assistant professor at the Department of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

She also took part in a number of scholarships including at the New School for Social Research in New York and Japan Foundation in Tokyo.

[9][10] She has also worked as a columnist for Gazeta Wyborcza daily as well as Pani and published articles in such magazines as Tygodnik Powszechny, Twórczość, Bluszcz, Czas kultury and Kultura i społeczeństwo.