Dr. Sita Balani is the author of Deadly and Slick: Sexual Modernity and the Making of Race (Verso, 2023) and co-author of Empire’s Endgame: Racism and the British State (Pluto, 2021). She has published in Vice, Tribune, the White Review, Salvage, Public Books, Radical Philosophy, Five Dials, and Protean. She is working on a new project about impersonation.