Jo is a writer and creator with over 8 years of experience in the non-profit, social work and research sectors. They are interested in all things sex, sexuality, gender and how different groups/people experience these wor(l)ds. Jo is currently a final year PhD candidate in Anthropology and Sociology at SOAS, University of London, and a Junior Fellow at the Center for Applied Transgender Studies. Their PhD project focuses on documentary films, sex work and gentrification in South India, and is aligned with the advocacy they are involved in on-ground. They view research as one of the many ways they can add to the movements that they are a part of. Additionally, they run two independent projects; Almaarii, which is a visual ethnography of the "closet" in South Asia and Trans/form, a project on understanding anti-trans violence in India.