Anna Carastathis is a political philosopher internationally known for her work on intersectionality. She is the author of Intersectionality: Origins, Contestations, Horizons (2016), which was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title by the Association of College and Research Libraries. She was honored with the inaugural Hypatia Diversity Essay Prize for her article, “Basements and Intersections” (2013).

In 2019, Anna co-founded the Feminist Autonomous Centre for research (FAC) (feministresearch.org), a community-based research center in Athens, Greece. At FAC, Anna designed the political education program, teaching community courses on intersectionality; histories and theories of gender and sexuality; abolition feminisms; decriminalising the facilitation of migration; and gendered violence and transformative justice. She also co-organised the annual Feminist No Borders Summer School, into its seventh year. She edited the open access micropublishing project FAC press and she coordinates the Feminist Library.

Previously, Anna held research and teaching positions at California State University Los Angeles (Department of Philosophy); the University of British Columbia (Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice); l’Université de Montréal (Centre for Research on Ethics); Concordia University (Simone de Beauvoir Institute) and Panteion University (Department of Social Anthropology).

Anna regularly publishes in English and Greek. She is co-author of the book Reproducing Refugees: Photographìa of a Crisis (2020). Current research: co-investigator on RESIST: Fostering Queer Feminist Intersectional Resistances against Transnational Anti-Gender Politics (theresistproject.eu), which seeks to amplify and deepen resistance to the rising tide of ‘anti-gender’ politics; collaborates on a research project on the Border Industry in the Aegean island of Lesvos.

Herself a migrant, a lesbian*, and a feminist, her commitment to intersectional justice and abolition of interlocking systems of oppression stems from her experiences witnessing and surviving violence in the settler societies on Turtle Island and on the periphery of Europe, where she has lived.