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Stories of Queer Feminist Alliances in the Peacebuilding Movement

Lesbian feminist organizing has played a significant role in women’s peacebuilding work, including anti-war and abolitionist organizing. Yet women’s lesbian and queer identities as a part of their organizing are continually marginalized in the histories of the women’s peacebuilding movement and feminist strategies for resisting patriarchal violence. What can explain the silence about these lesbian and queer lives, especially as told about the American and UK women’s peacebuilding movements?  

Jamie Hagen, Lecturer in International Relations at Queen’s University Belfast, will discuss how this silencing perpetuates heteronormative practices in gender, peace, and security work. Her research surfaces stories of queer women in organizing for peace, both past and present. Part of this work is also articulating the complex ways people align themselves with LGBTQ identities and how this has shifted historically when working in international security spaces such as the United Nations.

About the Speaker

Dr. Jamie J. Hagen is a Lecturer in International Relations at Queen’s University Belfast, where she is the founding co-director of the Centre for Gender in Politics. Her work sits at the intersection of gender, security studies, and queer theory. Jamie brings a feminist, anti-racist approach to her work, bridging gaps between academic, policy, and activist spaces. She is the lead researcher on a British Academy Innovation Fellowship (2022-2023) focusing on improving engagement with lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer women in Women, Peace, and Security Programming. She is co-editor of the forthcoming edited volume Queer Conflict Research: New Approaches to the Study of Political Violence (BUP). 

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Judith Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies

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