Aleardo Zanghellini is Professor of Law and Social Theory at the University of Reading. His areas of specialisation include the politics and governance of sexuality and gender. Aleardo is the author of two research monographs: The Sexual Constitution of Political Authority: The ‘Trials’ of Same-Sex Desire (2015), and Imaginative Resistance, Queer Fiction and The Law: Same-Sex Desire and the Good Life in Heteronormative Orders (2021), both published by Routledge.