Drew Dalton is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Sunderland, UK as well as Chair and Founder of ReportOUT, a global human rights charity for sexual and gender minorities. He has published work on the sociological implications of austerity, focusing on HIV/AIDS, stigma, and medicalization. He is co-editor of the forthcoming book, The Queer Guide to Human Rights.
Angela Smith is Professor of Language and Culture at the University of Sunderland, UK. She has published widely in the area of gender, media discourse and politeness theory. She is co-editor of the
Bloomsbury Library of Gender in Popular Culture and editor of
Gender Equality in Changing Times (Palgrave, 2020).