Leila Serra Badran, a Palestinian-Catalan researcher and activist for Palestine, holds a degree in Humanities (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) and a Master’s Degree in Social Movements and International Conflicts (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona). She specialises in Gender Studies in the Middle East (School of Oriental Studies) and the instrumentalisation of LGBTQ+ struggles, homonationalism, and pinkwashing in non-Eurocentric contexts.