Hi all,

I'm super happy to announce our upcoming meeting on Monday February 26 at 10am ET / 4pm CET / 8:30pm IST - Jamie Hagen will lead us in a discussion around Queering the Women, Peace, & Security Agenda.

Breaking Gender/Sex Binaries circle members will receive an invitation to this event. If you are not a part of the Breaking Gender/Sex Binaries circle, please sign up at https://tinyurl.com/SGPbreakingGenderSexBinaries

In the year 2000 the UN passed Security Council Resolution (UNCSCR 1325), the first UN Security Council resolution to draw attention to women and girls during conflict, as well as the first to consider gendered experiences of war. Yet those vulnerable to insecurity and violence because of their sexual orientation or gender identity remain largely neglected by the international peace and security community. While much has been accomplished to include a gender analysis of conflict in recent years, there is an alarming lack of attention to how homophobic and transphobic violence targeting lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) individuals occurs in conflict. The discussion will discuss practical proposals to respond to these silences as outlined in the 'Queering Women, Peace and Security: A practice-based toolkit' for including sexual orientation and gender identity in peace and security work. 

You can also read Supporting Queer Feminist Mobilizations for Peace and Security, (with Chitra Nagarajan), and/or read more related publications on Jamie's website.

Jamie J. Hagen is a Lecturer in International Relations at Queens University Belfast where she is the founding co-director of the Centre for Gender in Politics. Her research bridges a feminist security studies approach with queer theory to offer a more complete gender analysis of how the implementation of the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) resolutions impact lesbian, gay, bisexual,  transgender and queer (LGBTQ) people living in conflict-related environments.  Her research at the intersection of gender, security studies and queer theory brings a feminist, anti-racist approach to addressing continuing gaps between academic, policy and activist spaces.   Jamie was the 2021-2022 chair of the ISA LGBTQA Caucus. She is co-editor of the edited volume Queer Conflict Research: New Approaches to the Study of Violent Conflict (2024) with Samuel Ritholtz and Andrew Dellatolla.