Treena Orchard is an Associate Professor in the School of Health Studies and an Affiliate in Women’s Studies and Feminist Research at Western University in London, Ontario, Canada. An anthropologist with cultural and medical expertise, she has conducted ethnographic research with women in sex work, people with HIV/AIDS, Indigenous populations, and those of sexual minority status across Canada and in India. Her areas of special research interest include sexuality and sex work, gender, marginalization, and the politics of health and her work has been published in academic journals like Social Science & Medicine, Culture, Health & Sexuality, Critical Public Health, and Anthropologica. She has delivered over 75 conference papers, is regularly consulted by international journals and funding bodies for her expertise as a peer-reviewer. She is also involved in local and national activism related to the rights of women and other marginalized populations and had her first poem published in 2014 in a collection by the Poetry Institute of Canada, From the Cerulean Sea (National Library of Canada, Ottawa). Treena lives in London, Ontario with her two cats Shiva and Mr. Marbles, who provide much love and grounded support in the navigation of the everyday.