Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli
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Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli AM is an Australian academic, author and activist specializing in the study of gender, sexuality and intersectionality.[1] Pallotta-Chiarolli is an Honorary Fellow at Deakin University, and a member of its Gender and Sexuality Studies Network and LGBTIQ+ Network, researching in gender diversity, cultural diversity, family diversity and sexual diversity.[2] She is also the author of Australia's first AIDS biography.
- Two Lambda Literary Awards (GLBTIQ)[3] and 2 Bisexual Book Awards in the USA.[4]
- Founding member of the Australian LGBTIQ+ Multicultural Council in 2004.[5]
- 2001 Australian Book Design Award in the Educational Texts for Young People Category for Boys Stuff, and listed in the Australian Centre for Youth Literature's “150 Years,150 Books: Victoria's Most Treasured Books” list.
- 2018, Victorian Globe Straight Ally Award.[6]
- 2021, the national annual Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli Writers' Fellowship was established in the WA Writers Centre.[7][8]
- 2022 Australia Day Honours appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for "significant service to the LGBTIQ community, and to education".[9]
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