Kolika Mitra is currently working as Program Associate at Sappho for Equality, Kolkata, an organisation that works for the rights and social justice of sexually marginalized women and transmasculine individuals. She is a member of the West Bengal Transgender Development Board under the Department of Women and Child Development and Social Welfare, Government of West Bengal. Kolika identifies as non-binary and uses the pronouns she/they. She has been trained in Sociology and submitted her PhD thesis at Jawaharlal Nehru University. Celebrating queerness in all and challenging heteronormativity from every possible angle are her boosters in life, along with food, books and music.