Books
‘Queer Conflict Research: New Approaches to the Study of Political Violence’, (edited with Samuel Ritholtz and Andrew Delatolla), Bristol University Press, Forthcoming Spring 2024
Special Issues
‘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.
Articles
- Learning to say ‘no’: privilege, entitlement and refusal in peace, (post)conflict and security research, Critical Studies on Security, 2023 (with Ilaria Michelis, Jennifer Philippa Eggert & Lewis Turner )
- Our Work is International Relations: On Exclusion, Negotiation, and Engagement Against Disciplinary Boundaries. Alternatives, June 2023 (with Anupama Ranawana)
- Queer experiences within the bounds of International Relations, Alternatives (with Alex Edney-Browne)
- International studies and struggles for inclusion. International Studies Review, 25(2), June 2023 (with Chadi, T. A., Bond, K. D., Dorff, C., Hagen, J., Hendrix, C. S., & Thies, C.)
- ‘An Interview with Nikita Simonne Dupuis-Vargas Latorre about Trans Men’s Rights in Colombia Today’, Peace Review, November 2022
- ‘Forum-Shifting and Human Rights: Prospects for Queering the Women, Peace and Security Agenda’, (with Catherine O’Rourke), Human Rights Quarterly, August 2023
- ‘Queering Gender-Based Violence Scholarship: An Integrated Research Agenda’, (with Meredith Loken), International Studies Review, November 2022
- ‘Worker-led feminist mobilizing for the museum of the future’ (with Margaret Middleton), European Journal of Women’s Studies, October 2022
- ‘Queer feminist interruptions to internationalising UK higher education’, British Education Research Journal, April 2022
- “Nevertheless, they persisted. feminist activism & the politics of crisis in Northern Ireland “ (with Maria-Adriana Deiana and Danielle Roberts), Journal of Gender Studies, 2022
- “Revisiting gender-neutral policy from a trans perspective: a look at Northern Ireland ” (with Maria-Adriana Deiana and Danielle Roberts), European Journal of Politics and Gender, 2022
- “Racial hierarchies of knowledge production in the Women, Peace and Security agenda” (w/ Toni Haastrup), Critical Studies on Security, 2021
- “Compounding Risk for Sex Workers in the United States”, NACLA Report on the Americas, 2018
- “Queering Women, Peace & Security in Colombia”, Critical Studies on Security, 2017
- “Queering Women, Peace & Security”, International Affairs, 2016
Book Chapters
- “Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity or Expression (SOGIE) in Violent Conflict and Peacebuilding” (with Megan Daigle, Jamie Hagen, and Henri Myrttinen), Routledge Handbook of Feminist Peace Research, Tarja Väyrynen, Swati Parashar, Élise Féron and Catia Cecilia Confortini (eds)., March 2021
- “Global Racial Hierarchies & the Limits of Localization via National Action Plans” w/ Toni Haastrup, New Directions in Women, Peace and Security, Soumita Basu, Paul Kirby & Laura J. Shepherd (Eds.), Bristol University Press, 2020
- “Extending acts of motherhood: Storytelling as resistance to stigma” , Troubling Motherhood: Maternality in Global Politics, Lucy B. Hall, Anna L. Weissman, & Laura J. Shepherd (eds), Oxford University Press, p. 51-66, 2020
- “Sexualities” in Handbook on Gender and Violence, eds, Laura J. Shepherd (ed), Oxfordshire, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, p. 61-76, 2019
- “Global LGBTQ politics and human rights” in Interdisciplinary Approaches to Human Rights, eds. Elora Chowdhury & Rajini Srikanth (eds) Oxfordshire, UK: Taylor and Francis/Routledge, 2018
- “The Revolutionary Possibilities of Online Trans and Queer Communities”, Gender, Sex and Politics: In the Streets and Between the Sheets, (Routledge, 2015)
Policy-focused work
- Populist and Illiberal Politics: Protecting LGBTQ+ People With the Women, Peace, and Security, New Lines Institute, Agenda (with Elizabeth Corredor), November 2023,
- Queering Women, Peace and Security: A Practice-Based Toolkit
Review articles and editorials
- Digital Media Team editorial, (w/ Annick T.R. Wibben), International Feminist Journal of Politics, 2021, 23:5, 674-675 .
- “LGBTI Perspectives in Peacebuilding” in The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Peace and Conflict Studies, living edition (September 2020).
- “Homophobic Violence in Armed Conflict and Political Transition”, Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research. 25:3, 374-376, March 2020.
- “Counting Male Victims, Recognizing Women Rapists and Revisiting Assumptions about Conflict-Related Sexual Violence”, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, 13:4, 524-530, July 2019.
- “Feminism is Queer: The Intimate Connection Between Queer and Feminist Theory”, International Journal of Feminist Politics, 19.4 (2017): pp. 549-550.
Additional online publications
- Can the U.N. Protect Queer Rights? (with Dean Cooper-Cunningham, María Susana Peralta Ramón, and Jess Gifkins) Foreign Policy, July 2023
- Colombia shows that ‘queering’ a peace process can be done, The World Today, June 2023
- In countries as different as Colombia and Lebanon, LGBTQ advocates are helping lead protests and build peace, Washington Post, July 2021
- Queer Reflections on 20 Years of Women, Peace, & Security: A Conversation w/ Dr. Jamie Hagen, Praxis, 10 Feb 2021
- Interview – Jamie Hagen, (edited by Karoline Faerber), E-IR, 15 February 2021
- Race, Justice and New Possibilities: 20 Years of the Women, Peace and Security agenda, (with Toni Haastrup), LSE WPS Forum, July 2020
- The Future of LGBTQ Human Rights in the Women, Peace and Security Agenda, IPI Global Observatory, July 2019
- How a UN Committee’s Ruling on Abortion in Ireland Holds Countries Accountable, Rewire News, Jan 2017
- Did sexual orientation and gender identity play a role in the rejection of the Colombian peace deal?, LSE WPS Blog, December 2016
- How We Are Failing Women and Girls in Humanitarian Emergencies, Rewire News, Feb 2016
- 5 things you didn’t know about human trafficking, Rolling Stone, August 2014
- The Fight for Universal Access to Abortion, Rewire News, April 2014
- The missing group of victims in conflict-related violence, Women Under Siege, Dec 2014
- Reproductive Justice through the eyes of an Abortion Doula, Rewire News, Feb 2014