Nivi Manchanda is Editor-in-Chief of Politics, Lecturer in International Politics at Queen Mary, University of London and co-convenor of the BISA Colonial, Postcolonial, Decolonial Working Group. She obtained her PhD at the University of Cambridge at the Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS). She is the author of ‘Queering the Pashtun: Afghan Sexuality in the Homonationalist Imaginary’ Third World Quarterly (2015, vol 36: 1), ‘Rendering Afghanistan Legible: Borders, Frontiers and the 'State' of Afghanistan’ Politics (2017, vol. 37: 4) and co-editor of Race and Racism in International Relations: Confronting the Global Colour Line (Routledge interventions, 2014).