João Florêncio is a Senior Lecturer in History of Modern and Contemporary Art and Visual Culture at the University of Exeter, working at the intersection of visual culture, queer theory and contemporary philosophy. His monograph Bareback Porn, Porous Masculinities, Queer Futures: The Ethics of Becoming-Pig (2020) analyses contemporary gay "pig" masculinities, which developed alongside antiretroviral therapies, online porn and new sexualized patterns of recreational drug use, examining how they trouble modern European understandings of the male body, as well as their ethics and political underpinnings.