I’m a journalist, researcher, and teacher. I write about gender, sex, and wellness; art and cultural heritage; and ecology, agriculture, and food. My work centers stories of creativity, community, pleasure, and care in the face of unjust systems. I aim to move in alignment with collective, feminist and liberatory movements against racism, capitalism, colonialism, and caste, and for abolition, queer liberation, and transnational solidarity.
I am a PhD student in Cultural Anthropology at the City University of New York, where my research interests center on the circulation of embodied practices, such as tantra, between the Indian and U.S. spiritual and wellness industries.
I’m also a contributing writer creating in-depth, social justice-centered editorial features about cultural heritage for Curationist, which aggregates digitized art and cultural objects from multiple museums onto one searchable open-source platform.
I was a 2023 New Jersey Sustainability Reporting Fellow with CivicStory. Prior to that, I covered food history and sovereignty as a contributing writer to Atlas Obscura. My gender and sexuality reporting has appeared on platforms including Rewire News Group, POPSUGAR, The Washington Post, The BBC, Teen Vogue, Time, and Bitch. From 2015-2018, I wrote about sexuality and social movements in the U.S. and India as a columnist at Feministing. I’ve also been a wellness columnist with a focus on queer and feminist healing practices for Dame and The Talkspace Voice.
My writing has been cited and anthologized in multiple popular and scholarly outlets, including New York, the Duke Law Journal and several books on consent, queerness, and sexual violence.
I was a 2015-2016 Fulbright fellow in women’s studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in New Delhi. I completed my MA in Arts and Aesthetics at JNU in 2018. I received a BA in 2015 from Harvard University. My research on Hindi cinema and popular erotica has been published in Critical Collective. I am grateful to constantly learn from friendship and solidarity with Indian feminist, anticaste, and people’s movements.
Reina Gattuso 
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