Elena Biagini is an activist and independent researcher with a PhD in Gender Studies from Sapienza University in Rome, who also teaches at an Italian public secondary school. She is one of the rare and leading researchers in the field of lesbian feminist studies in Italy. She has played a critical role as a well-known lesbian activist in the making of the Italian LGBTIQ+ movement  especially in the more radical, intersectional, and queer branch, in several lesbian groups and Facciamo Breccia, the 2000s NoVAT movement against the hegemony of the Vatican. Facciamo Breccia introduced a critique of homonormativity and homonationalism that defined the actions of mainstream organizations in those years.

She collaborates with independent media and published numerous articles in LGBTIQ+, lesbian, and feminist fields. Her PhD thesis (based on research done outside of her teaching job) and monograph L’emersione imprevista: Il movimento delle lesbiche in Italia negli anni ‘70 e ‘80 (The Unexpected Emergence: The Lesbian Movement in 1970s and 1980s Italy) was published in 2018 as the first scientific and rigorous contribution to the history of lesbian movements in Italy. This book is an indispensable contribution aimed at researchers, students, and activists. In Italy, this political movement and activism would not nearly be as visible without her contributions.