Sophie Mayer is the author of Political Animals: The New Feminist Cinema (IB Tauris, 2015) and The Cinema of Sally Potter: A Politics of Love (Wallflower Press, 2009). She is a regular contributor to Sight & Sound and Literal magazine, and works with the London-based queer feminist curation collective Club des Femmes, and Raising Films, a campaign and community for parents and caregivers in the UK film industry.