Helen Pluckrose is a liberal political and cultural writer and speaker. She was editor of Areo Magazine and is the author of many popular essays on postmodernism, critical theory, liberalism, secularism, and feminism. A participant in the Grievance Studies Affair probe, which highlighted problems in social justice scholarship, she is today an exile from the humanities, where she researched late medieval and early modern religious writing by and for women. She is the co-author of Cynical Theories: How activist scholarship made everything about race, gender and identity - and why this harms everybody which was book of the year in the Times, Sunday Times and Financial Times. She lives in England and can be found on Twitter @HPluckrose.