Breanne Fahs

Breanne Fahs is a professor of women and gender studies at Arizona State University, where her work focuses on women’s sexuality, critical embodiment, radical feminism, feminist histories, and political activism. She is the founder and director of the Feminist Research on Gender and Sexuality Group at ASU and also works as a clinical psychologist in private practice, specializing in sexuality, couples work, and trauma recovery. Fahs holds a Ph.D. in women’s studies and clinical psychology from the University of Michigan and a B.A. in women’s studies/gender studies and psychology from Occidental College.

She is the author of numerous books, including Performing Sex (SUNY Press, 2011), The Moral Panics of Sexuality (Palgrave, 2013), Valerie Solanas (Feminist Press, 2014), Out for Blood (SUNY Press, 2016), Firebrand Feminism (University of Washington Press, 2018), Burn It Down! Feminist Manifestos for the Revolution, Unshaved, and Women, Sex, and Madness. In Fat and Furious: Igniting Radical Fat Resistance, Fahs brings together her expertise in feminist theory, psychology, and critical embodiment to examine