Prof. Janik Bastien Charlebois is a Canadian sociologist, professor, and advocate for intersex rights. She teaches at the Université du Québec à Montréal, and her areas of study include intersex critical studies, testimonial cultures, epistemic injustice and epistemology. She holds a Doctorate in sociology from UQAM (2007), a Master's degree in anthropology from the University of Montreal (1999), and a Bachelor's degree in anthropology from the University of Montreal (1995). During the summers of 2014 and 2015, Bastien Charlebois was a visiting scholar at the Centre for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies (Zentrum für transdisziplinäre Geschlechterstudien), Humboldt University of Berlin.