Jaime author of Polyamory For Dummies, and Great Sex: Mapping Your Desire, is an Irish American sexpert, grassroots researcher, and activist who has been involved in LGBTQ, women’s, and racial justice movements since the early 90s. Having survived sexist violence and anti-lesbian disownment as a youth, Dr. Grant became a go-to resource on gender and sex among her peers and colleagues as a matter of survival. This led to doctoral study in gender and sexuality and the creation of experiential and visual art workshops on desire, friendship and repair, which she has offered for 20+ years at community centers and universities throughout the United States and human rights conventions around the globe – including Russia, China, South Korea, Vietnam, the Philippines, Cyprus, Kenya, South Africa, New Zealand, and Mauritius. Along the path to developing Desire Mapping, Grant spearheaded a number of transformational grassroots research projects, including serving as principal investigator for the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force’s ground-breaking reports on aging, Outing Age 2010 and anti-transgender discrimination, Injustice at Every Turn: A Report of the National Transgender Discrimination Survey (2011). In 2018, she co-edited Friendship as Social Justice Activism with Niharika Banerjea, Rohit Dasgupta, and Debanuj DasGupta. In 2019, she launched the first National LGBTQ+ Women’s Community Survey with legendary activist/writer, Urvashi Vaid.

 

Arundhati is a writer, cultural practitioner, social activist and traveller. With three decades of experience in the arts and culture, she served as the Executive Director of India Foundation for the Arts (IFA) between 2013 and 2023. Her awards include Chevening Clore Leadership (2015-2016), Chevening Gurukul Scholarship at London School of Economics (2005-2006), and Salzburg Global Seminar Fellowship. She contributed on advisory panels and board of the Seagull Foundation for the Arts, Blind with Camera, Sangama and Toto funds the Arts, and continues to do so for the Museum of Art and Photography (MAP), Shomokaleen Protibidhan, the Solidarity Foundation, and Maraa. She writes for various publications such as Scroll, The Wire, and The Deccan Herald. Her collection of poetry in Bangla Oshomoye phire esho nodi hoye was published in January 2023 by Lastrada Prakashan. Her book All Our Loves: Journeys with Polyamory in India was published in 2025 by Aleph Book Company. She writes a monthly column on relationships titled Ties and Knots for the Deccan Herald. She consults and trains for the cultural and not-for-profit sector.