Dr Chrys Papaioannou (they/she; b. Athens, 1979) is a critical theorist, activist and facilitator living in London. They have been practising Contact Improvisation (CI) since 2017, and are currently collaborating with cultural sociologist Dr Jana Melkumova-Reynolds (LSE) on an autoethnographic study of subjectivity in CI. Their intellectual work explores the role of intimacy and vulnerability in social relations from a queer-feminist perspective, always in dialogue across generational and national borders