लेखक: Niharika Banerjea

Niharika Banerjea is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Ambedkar University, Delhi, and has previously taught at the University of Southern Indiana and SUNY Buffalo. Her previous works include the co-edited collection Friendship as Social Justice Activism (2018). Kath Browne is Professor of Geographies of Sexualities and Genders at Maynooth University, as well as Professor of Human Geography at University of Brighton. Her previous books include Queer Methods and Methodologies (with Catherine Nash, 2016) and Lesbian Geographies: Gender, Place and Power (with Eduarda Ferreira, 2018). Eduarda Ferreira is a researcher working on gender and sexuality with the Interdisciplinary Centre of Social Sciences (CICS/NOVA) at Nova University of Lisbon, as well as an executive board member of the feminist NGO UMAR. Her previous books include Lesbian Geographies: Gender, Place and Power (with Kath Browne, 2018). Marta Olasik received a PhD in social sciences from the University of Warsaw. Her area of expertise is lesbian studies, which she is trying to introduce into the Polish academic reality, reflecting on the subject from the perspectives of the sociology of knowledge and geographies of sexualities primarily. Her dissertation is a pioneering interdisciplinary conceptualisation of lesbian subjectivities and citizenships, and aims at establishing a distinct lesbian-studies discourse in Poland. Julie A. Podmore is Professor of Geosciences at John Abbott College, Canada, and an affiliate faculty member at Concordia University and Université du Québec à Montréal. Her previous books include Introducing Geography (with Stephen Bryce and John Buskard, 2011).