Treena Orchard is an anthropologist, author, and activist in the School of Health Studies at Western University. As an Associate Professor, her work is well-known nationally and globally, especially her research on sexuality, gender, and health among diverse cultural and digital communities. She conducted ethnographic and arts-based research with people in sex work, Indigenous communities, individuals impacted by HIV/AIDS, and sexual minority groups.

 

In 2017 Treena published her ground-breaking body mapping book with Springer Press called Remembering the Body: Ethical Issues in Body Mapping Research. Regularly featured in local, national, and international media (140 stories and counting), her writing about dating apps skyrocketed her to viral online fame and paved the way for her new memoir, called Sticky, Sexy, Sad: Swipe Culture & The Darker Side of Dating Apps. In this thought-provoking and emotionally powerful book, Orchard uses her skills as an anthropologist who studies sexuality and a sex-positive feminist to explore what it feels like to want love while also resisting the addictive pull of platforms designed to make us swipe-dependent.