Sofia Varino, PhD, is a queer writer and researcher based in Berlin. With a focus on intersectional queer feminist praxis, their work spans political ecology, environmental and disability justice, science and technology studies, and critical pedagogies. Varino is co-author of Aquatopia: Climate Interventions(Routledge, 2023), which was selected for a 2023 Spotlight by the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, and co-editor of a special issue of Somatechnics on Data Matters: (Un)doing Data and Gender in the Life Sciences (Edinburgh University Press, 2019).
Varino teaches at Humboldt University of Berlin on topics including gender, ecology, health, disability and social justice, and hosts COLLECTIVE RESISTANCE, a platform for intersectional queer politics. They have published in leading academic journals including Catalyst, Shima, Somatechnics, European Journal of Women’s Studies, and Women’s Studies Quarterly, and their research has been featured in TheChemical SensitivityPodcast, Unravelling the AnthropocenePodcast, and the BBC’s Talking Movies.Varino’s poetry has appeared in Poetry Wales, The Hythe, Ink Sweat & Tears, and Poetry International, among other literary magazines, and their first poetry chapbook Natural Language was published by Dancing Girl Press (2017), with a new chapbook forthcoming in 2025. Their book on American environmentalist David Buckel is forthcoming from Routledge. Varino holds a PhD in Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies with a Certificate in Art and Philosophy from Stony Brook State University of New York (SUNY).