Dr. Dhiren Borisa is a Dalit queer activist, poet, and urban sexual geographer, currently serving as an Assistant Professor at O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat. An Urban Studies International Fellow (2022), Dhiren earned his PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, with a focus on queer cartographies of desire in Delhi. His research explores sexual mappings and the making of cities through an intersectional and decolonial lens, with a particular emphasis on both queer spaces in India and diasporic queer worldings.