Anima Adjepong, PhD is on the faculty at the University of Cincinnati as an Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexualities Studies. They received their PhD in Sociology from The University of Texas at Austin, with concentrations in African and African Diaspora Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies and their A.B. in Comparative Literature from Princeton University. Anima researches, writes, and teaches about identity, culture, and social change and are particularly interested in how cultural struggles can bring about social transformation. They are the author of Afropolitan Projects: Redefining Blackness, Sexualities, and Culture from Houston to Accra. They are currently working on a project about women’s football, gendered nationalism, and state-sponsored homophobia in Ghana. As a scholar-activist, Adjepong advocates on behalf of women and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) Africans.