Interview – Samuel Ritholtz
Samuel Ritholtz discusses queer kinship and the rights of refugee families, the impact of Covid-19 on trans and queer people and the role of queer IR in efforts to decolonise the discipline.
Interview – Hurricane Kimchi and Ali Zahoor
Hurricane Kimchi and Ali Zahoor talk LGBTQ+ activism and drag art in South Korea and internationally.
Interview – Chamindra Weerawardhana
Chamindra Weerawardhana discusses decolonial intersectional feminist epistemology, transfeminist politics, LGBTIQ+ rights in South Asia, activism and decolonising peacebuilding.
LGBTQ+ History Month Interviews
To celebrate LGBTQ+ History Month we asked previous contributors to E-IR whether they think the discipline of IR has made important strides to equally incorporate LGBTQ+ perspectives, ideas and histories.
Review – Rights as Weapons: Instruments of Conflict, Tools of Power
Clifford Bob presents the ways in which multiple actors use human rights to advance their agendas, both liberal and illiberal.
Interview – Jamie Hagen
Jamie Hagen discusses the importance of LGBTQ+ History Month, the role of queer theory in IR and challenges faced by women and LGBTIQ+ folks in Northern Ireland.
Technologies of Truth and the LGBTI+ Asylum Reality
The truths that science seek should be viewed with caution by those who implement the rules and have the power to apply their effects to the harsh reality of LGBTI+ people around the world.
Russian Democrats’ Stance on the LGBT Community: An Attitudinal Shift
Russia has yet to reach a point where LGBT support is necessary for a democratic politician. However, it is already desirable and certainly not shameful.
Interview – Dean Cooper-Cunningham
Dean Cooper-Cunningham discusses the benefits of using visual methods in IR, responses to Russian political queerphobia and the visuality of resistance and (in)security.
Doing Sex Right in Nepal: Activist Language and Sexed/Gendered Expectations
Gender-variant understandings of self are not always reducible to culturally explicit and socially evident claims to identities, or fixed across entire lifespans
