This discussion with Jamie J. Hagen and Pascha Bueno-Hansen draws upon queer feminist research with activists and advocates in Latin America, Northern Ireland and the UN. What can we learn from queer and dissident feminist struggles to understand and counteract the current conjuncture of authoritarian intensification? What can peace mean - a term that has been instrumentalized by the organized global right as can be seen in the so-called “Board of Peace”? What – in contrast to that – could queer peace look like? How can we create meaningful conceptions of justice when so many relationships – humanly and beyond the human – seem to be destroyed beyond repair? How do we shape queer feminist futurities at the nexus of peace, justice and security?
Romy Opperman (Assistant Professor of Philosophy) will introduce the discussion, which will be moderated by Esther M. Franke, PhD candidate in Politics.
Presented by The New School's Gender and Sexualities Studies Institute.
Pascha Bueno-Hansen is an activist, scholar, and educator. She contributes to an ongoing collaborative project committed to repairing relations with Lenape and Nanticoke communities in the Delaware Bay region and beyond. She coedited a 2026 Special Issue of the International Journal of Transitional Justice with Jose Fernando Serrano Amaya entitled Dissident Gender, Sexuality, and Transitional Justice. Her book, Dissident Genders and Sexualities in the Andes: Truth, Justice and Reparations is forthcoming with Rutgers University Press.
Jamie Hagen is a Lecturer in Global Politics at the University of Manchester, working with the Critical Global Politics research cluster. She is also a founding co-convenor of the Queer Justice, Peace and Security Community of Practice. Her research, which has been published in several leading journals, is at the intersection of gender, security studies and queer theory and brings a feminist, anti-racist approach to these fields. Her most recent book is Queering Women, Peace and Security: Expanding Feminist Approaches to Gender in Peacebuilding (Oxford University Press, 2025).
Esther M. Franke is a PhD candidate in the Politics department at The New School for Social Research working at the intersection of global politics, transnational feminisms and queer/trans theories. In their dissertation, they develop trans as a perspective for global politics in conversation with three instances of feminist queer and trans as well as mobility organizing in Mexico City, Buenos Aires and Berlin arguing that anti-trans and anti-migrant politics have been used as laboratories for the global right. They teach widely on feminisms, queer and trans studies and (global) politics. Outside of academia, they organize as part of the transnational feminist collective and NGO “Discover Football” working on sports and gender justice.
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