Julio César Díaz Calderón
Julio César Díaz Calderón (Elle/They/Them) is a trans/feminist activist-scholar, poet, and street educator. They work as researcher at Data + Feminism Lab (MIT, USA), IDEAS (JGU, India), and CEIICH & IMATE (UNAM, Mexico). They have been published in different peer-reviewed journals in International Relations, Gender Studies, Literature, and Mathematics. They edited the special section on “Imagined and lived in/securities through poetry” in Critical Studies on Security (with Ahmad Qais Munhazim, 2024) and the special issue on “The study of International Relations through queer/cuir and trans/feminist perspectives” in Relaciones Internacionales (with Gloria Cuesta Noguerales, 2025). Currently, they are working on the special issue on “Transnational Black Feminist Poetics/Politics” for the International Feminist Journal of Politics (with K. Melchor Quick Hall), the edited volume on Re-Stor(y)ing in/as/against International Relations (with Elane Westfaul) and a monograph on Re-Telling International Relations From Latin America: As If Trans and Queer People Matter(ed).