Queering Women, Peace and Security: Expanding Feminist Approaches to Gender in Peacebuilding, Oxford University Press, 2025

In 2000, the United Nations Security Council passed resolution 1325, which addressed, for the first time, the experience of women and girls during conflict and the need to consider gender in peacebuilding. From this landmark resolution, a groundbreaking Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda has evolved, guided by ten total Security Council resolutions. But to this point, the WPS framework and related scholarship has yet to meaningfully include queer and trans women in their programmatic work and conflict interventions. Queering Women, Peace and Security fills this gap by applying queer theory to feminist efforts to ensure a gender perspective is promoted by the WPS agenda. Engaging with WPS documentation, examples of implementation, and interviews with practitioners, the book examines how the needs of LGBTQ people in conflict and peacebuilding are considered within the current architecture and practices. In particular, she identifies the interchangeable use of the words "gender" and "women," which betrays a larger analytical failure to think outside a binary categorization of gender. Informed by this analysis and interviews with leaders from Northern Ireland and Colombia, the book outlines steps those implementing the WPS agenda can take to work in collaboration with queer and trans communities in their gender, peace, and security work.

'Queer Conflict Research: New Approaches to the Study of Political Violence', (edited with Samuel Ritholtz & Andrew Delatolla), Bristol University Press, 2024

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(Reviewed in: International Affairs, and International Feminist Journal of Politics, shortlisted for ISA Feminist Theory and Gender Studies Book Prize)

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  • Our Work is International Relations: On Exclusion, Negotiation, and Engagement Against Disciplinary Boundaries. Alternatives, 49(3), 175-179, 2024

    With this forum we aim to contribute to the debate within International Relations (IR) scholarship about the space that has opened up since the inter-paradigmatic debate 30 years ago and the challenges still experienced by those of us coming from the “margin” yet committed to the “globalization” of the discipline. That is to say, to building a pluriverse of IR. Co edited with Anupama Ranawana, with additional contributions from Alex-Edney Brown, Ahmed Rizky Mardhatilla Umar and Roland Bleiker,

  • 'Cuir/Queer Peacebuilding', (edited with Melanie Judge, Samuel Ritholtz and José Fernando Serrano Amaya , Revista de Estudios Sociales, January 2023

This special issue explores what “queering” means in the context of peacebuilding. The issue addresses an unexamined gap in peacebuilding efforts to achieve gender justice and inclusive security in conflict-affected societies, namely the unique experiences of LGBTIQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and queer) individuals and their collective efforts to achieve social justice in contexts of sociopolitical violence. Although there is now over two decades of work to include attention to gender in peacebuilding efforts, little of this work focuses specifically on queer perspectives. Read the introduction here. 

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