Alkisti Efthymiou is a writer and anthropologist, interested in tracing the intersections of gender, sexuality, art, and affective politics. She is currently pursuing a PhD at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences (Athens, Greece). Her thesis focuses on love in/as crisis and the critical state of intimacy under late capitalism. Having worked with several cultural institutions in Greece and abroad, she also tries to problematize (when she can bear it) the conditions of precarity and exhaustion within the art world.