Róisín Ryan-Flood is Professor of Sociology and the Director of the Centre for Intimate and Sexual Citizenship at the University of Essex, UK. Her books include Lesbian Motherhood: Gender, Families and Sexual Citizenship (2009) and Transnationalising Reproduction: Third Party Conception in a Globalised World (Routledge, 2018). She is co-editor of the journal Sexualities.

Alison Rooke is a writer and researcher. After a long association with Goldsmiths, University of London, UK, where she was Senior Lecturer, she became the Director of the social research company Art of Regeneration.