Bogdan Ovcharuk is a PhD researcher working on socio-economic rights by combining critical theory, political economy, and historical hermeneutics. He is currently exploring how Jean Genet’s writings reflect the historical specificity of the queer experience of poverty, conditioned by the modern transformation of political authority, the defeat of labour movements, authoritarian capitalism, and colonialism. This endeavour is informed by Bogdan’s broader interest in Continental social and political thought, especially the work of Gillian Rose, which is at the heart of his dissertation. Bogdan has also worked as a human rights researcher in Eastern Europe, where he reported on LGBTQ+ rights in the context of public assemblies and investigated war crimes amid the Russia-Ukraine conflict.