Maya De Leo

Maya De Leo (she/they) is nominated for her impressive work as both an academic and queer activist. Maya De Leo obtained her PhD in History at the University of Pisa with a multiple award winning thesis on the representations of homosexuality in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Her research interests focus on the cultural history […]

Inna Michaeli

Inna Michaeli is a feminist scholar, writer and activist, who works at the intersections of gender and sexual politics, economic inequalities, anti-colonial politics and migration. Her political writing is an original feminist voice on a range of pressing and contested social issues, from lesbian gender politics to antisemitism and Palestine. Inna’s book ‘Women’s Economic Empowerment: […]

Hannah Fitsch

Hannah Fitsch is a very committed critical neuroscience researcher, combining perseverance with a good way of knowing when the rules must be broken to realise solidarity in academic and activist feminism. This understanding refers to her long and various political activism in anti-fascist and feminist groups and creating networks, such as the network behindert und […]

Edna Martínez

Edna Martínez is a social and political activist from Colombia. She lives in Berlin and received her PhD in Sociology at the Free University of Berlin on the continuity of primitive accumulation, using as an example the oil palm industry in the territories of black communities on the border of Colombia and Ecuador. She was […]

Adriana Zaharijević

Adriana Zaharijević is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade. Her work combines political philosophy, feminist theory and social history. She is the author of three monographs in Serbian (Becoming a Woman [2010], Who Is an Individual? [2014, 2019], Life of Bodies [2020]), and her latest book, […]

Tamara Martsenyuk

Tamara Martsenyuk holds a PhD in Sociology and is Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology, University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine. She studied and conducted research in the US, Canada, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Belgium, and Hungary. Tamara teaches Introduction to Gender Studies, Gender and Politics, Masculinity and Men’s Studies, Social Problems in Ukraine and the […]

Akanksha Mehta

Akanksha Mehta is a queer feminist educator, researcher, writer, photographer, and community organiser based in Southeast London and India. She is a Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Gender, Race and Cultural Studies and the Co-Director of the Centre for Feminist Research at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her broader research uses narrative writing, ethnographic methods, visual practice, […]

Katarzyna Wojnicka

Katarzyna Wojnicka is Associate Professor of Sociology and works as a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Sociology and Work Science at the University of Gothenburg. She is also Editor-in-chief for NORMA: International Journal for Masculinity Studies. In the past, she has held postdoctoral positions at the Center for European Research at the University of […]

Eszter Varsa

Eszter Varsa is a social historian with a PhD in Comparative Gender Studies (CEU, Budapest), currently working as a postdoc in the ERC Advanced Grant project “ZARAH: Women’s Labour Activism in Eastern Europe and Transnationally, From the Age of Empires to the Late 20th Century” at the CEU in Vienna. She studies women’s labour activism […]

Ewa Majewska

Ewa Majewska is a feminist philosopher and critical theorist of culture. An associate professor of the SWPS University in Warsaw, she works on feminist antifascism, counterpublics, and the dialectics of the weak. She is PI in the queer studies/archive theory project ‘Public against their will: The production of subjects in the archives of Hiacynt actions’ […]