Dr Olimpia Burchiellaro is an anthropologist and Senior Lecturer at the University of Essex. She completed her PhD and
Leverhulme ECR Fellowship at the University of Westminster in the Department of Politics & International Relations. Her research focuses on queer activism, commoning, and alternative managements/economies.
She has published work in English and Spanish in journals including Sexualities, Organization Studies, the International Feminist Journal of Politics and Relaciones Internacionales. Her most recent book The Gentrification of Queer Activism (Bristol University Press, 2023) offers a critique of the closure of queer spaces and the ways in which diversity politics works to gentrify queerness
in London. She also sits on the Management Committee for the Friends of the Joiners Arms, a Community Benefit Society that is opening London’s first community-run, community-owned, queer venue.