Evan Sedgwick-Jell is a PhD candidate in the Psychosocial Studies Department at Birkbeck University of London. He has focused on prevention and dealing with sexual violence in his work as an educator, political activist, and social worker. His doctoral research focuses on the political dimensions of commonsense understandings of depression, as represented in popular non-fiction. His research areas include social movements, anticapitalism, feminist and queer theory, pedagogy, cultural studies and the history of science. Sedgwick-Jell understands knowledge production as a necessarily political practice, and the interrelation between his writing and ongoing involvement in political mobilizations are central to his work.