Akanksha Mehta

Dr. Akanksha Mehta is a queer feminist educator, researcher, writer, photographer, and community organiser based in Southeast London, UK and in India. She is Senior Lecturer in Gender, Race and Cultural Studies and Co-Director of the Centre for Feminist Research at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her research, writing, visual practice, and educational work examine violence and resistance, political mobilisations, everyday politics of gender-sexuality-race-caste-disability, knowledge production, and continuities of liberalism and right-wing politics. She is the recipient of the 2023 Emma Goldman Award by the Flax Foundation and is a member of the Feminist Review collective. She is a trade union organiser and co-runs the political education spaces Insurgent Knowledges, Solidarity Kitchen, and Crip Theory Reading Group.