Ifra Javed is a PhD student in the Rhetoric, Media and Publics doctoral program. She obtained an MSc in Media and Communication from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2019. Before joining Northwestern, she earned a lecturer position in the School of Social Science at the Lahore School of Economics. Ifra’s research interests include queer community and identity building, Indigenous South Asian queer cultures, and digital queer counter-publics within the Pakistani context.