Jill Pope is a doctoral candidate in anthropology and gender studies at the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne, and a visiting researcher at the Institute of Philosophy and Social Theory at the University of Belgrade. Her research project focuses on drag artists in contemporary Belgrade, Serbia, and how drag performers, identities and performances are entangled with the city’s affective state. She draws on feminist, queer and trans theory to examine these countercultural practices through the dual lenses of critical care and hauntology. She presented on ‘Serving (post)socialist realness: Belgrade drag performances as spectral fabulations’ as part of the EuroPride 2022 Queer Studies lecture series organised by GenLab at the IFDT.