Surya Monro is a Professor in Sociology & Social Policy at the University of Huddersfield, and Director of its Centre for Citizenship, Conflict, Identity & Diversity. Surya works in the fields of gender and sexuality, notably on LGBT and Intersex issues. She is the author of Gender Politics: Citizenship, Activism, and Sexual Diversity (Pluto Press 2005) and Bisexuality (Palgrave MacMillan, 2015), and co-author of Sexuality, Equality and Diversity (Palgrave MacMillan, 2012) and Intersex, Variations if Sex Characteristics and DSD: The Need for Change (University of Huddersfield 2017) and co-editor of Queer in Africa: LGBTQI Identities, Citizenship, and Activism (Routledge 2018).