Paola Bacchetta

Paola Bacchetta is Professor and Vice-Chair for Research in the Department of Gender and Women's Studies at University of California, Berkeley. She was the first Chair of the Gender Consortium at Berkeley. She is currently Director, Institute for Gender and Sexuality Research. Her books include: Co-Motion: Re-Thinking Power, Subjects and Feminist and Queer Alliances for Our Times (Forthcoming, Durham: Duke University Press); Fatima Mernissi for Our Times, co-edited with Minoo Moallem (New York: Syracuse University Press, 2025); Global Raciality: Empire, Postcoloniality, and Decoloniality, co-edited with Sunaina Maira, Howard Winant (New York: Routledge, 2019); Femminismi Queer Postcoloniali, co-edited with Laura Fantone (Verona, Italy: Ombre Corte, 2015); Gender in the Hindu Nation (Delhi, India: Women Ink, 2004); Right-Wing Women: From Conservatives to Extremists around the World, co-edited with Margaret Power (New York: Routledge, 2002). She has published over 70 articles and book chapters on: feminist queer decolonial theory; lesbian and queer of color theories, activisms, artivisms; gender, sexuality and right-wing movements (India, France, U.S.). She is a longtime activist in lesbian, queer, anti-colonial, anti-capitalist, anti-imperialism, and anti-racism movements. She is co-coordinator of Decolonizing Sexualities Network. For free access to many of her publications: https://berkeley.academia.edu/PaolaBacchetta