Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli

Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli is an Australian academic, author and activist specializing in the study of gender, sexuality and intersectionality. 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. She is also the author of Australia's first AIDS biography.

Awards and recognition

 * Two Lambda Literary Awards (GLBTIQ) and 2 Bisexual Book Awards in the USA.
 * Founding member of the Australian LGBTIQ+ Multicultural Council in 2004.
 * 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.
 * 2021, the national annual Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli Writers' Fellowship was established in the WA Writers Centre.
 * 2022 Australia Day Honours appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for "significant service to the LGBTIQ community, and to education".

Books

 * Someone You Know: A Friend's Farewell, Adelaide: Wakefield Press, 1991. (new edition, 2002)
 * Girls Talk: Young Women Speak Their Hearts and Minds, Lane Cove, Sydney: Finch Publishing, 1998.
 * Tapestry: Italian Lives Over Five Generations, Milson's Point, Sydney: Random House, 1999.
 * Boys’ Stuff: Boys Talking About What Matters, co-edited with Wayne Martino Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2001.
 * So What's A Boy? : Addressing Issues of Masculinity in Education with co-author Wayne Martino, London: Open University Press, 2003
 * When Our Children Come Out: how to support gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered young people Sydney: Finch Publishing, 2005.
 * "Being Normal is the Only Thing To Be": Adolescents Perspectives on Gender at School, co-written with Wayne Martino, University of New South Wales Press,  2005.
 * Love You Two, Sydney: Random House, 2008.
 * Border Sexualities, Border Families in Schools,  New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2010.
 * The Politics of Recognition and Social Justice: Transforming Subjectivities and New Forms of Resistance co-edited with Bob Pease, Routledge, 2014.
 * Queerying Families of Origin co-edited with Chiara Bertone; Taylor & Francis Books, Oxfordshire, 2015
 * Bisexuality in Education: Erasure, Exclusion by Inclusion, and the Absence of Intersectionality; (edited) London: Routledge, 2015
 * Women in Relationships with Bisexual Men: Bi Men By Women. New York: Lexington Books, 2016.
 * Living and Loving in Diversity: An Anthology of Australian Multicultural Queer Adventures. Adelaide: Wakefield Press, 2018.