Abigail Curlew is a journalist, doctoral researcher, and trans feminist who specializes in advocacy around LGBTQ+ human rights, surveillance studies, and research around social media, doxxing, and online extremists. Abigail currently holds a Pierre Elliot Trudeau Foundation doctoral scholarship and a Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) doctoral fellowship for her research examining practices of do-it-yourself (DIY) policing and surveillance used against trans feminine activists, journalists, and scholars by anti-trans far-right trolls.