Call for PapersCyber-Intimacies: Queer and Feminist Interventions in Global Cyber Politics

Edited by Amy Lind, Stephen Bryant, and Prateek Srivastava

Abstract Submission Deadline: December 15th, 2025

We invite abstracts for an upcoming edited volume, Cyber-Intimacies: Queer and Feminist Interventions in Global Cyber Politics, which seeks to critically explore the concept of cyber-intimacies as an intervention in the field of global cyber politics. This volume foregrounds queer and trans perspectives to theorize cyber-intimacies as a site of global political struggle, resistance, and reimagination. Moving beyond frameworks that reduce cyber politics to security, surveillance, or risk, we conceptualize cyber-intimacies as the multiple and messy ways that bodies, affect, desire, memory, and power circulate across digital spaces. We call for contributions that embrace queer, trans, and feminist worldviews to analyze how cyberspace becomes a site of state regulation, sex, sexualities, racialized and gendered control, but also radical relationality, care, and refusal. 

We particularly welcome critical engagements that:

• Interrogate how the “intimate” is constructed, embodied, and governed in and through cyberspaces.

• Explore the complexities of sex, sexualities, and the cyber in unexplored contexts, while foregrounding decolonial and intersectional ideas.  

• Examine queer and trans experiences with digital platforms, surveillance technologies, and virtual economies.

• Explore cyber-resistance practices and forms of counter-conduct enacted by marginalized communities.

• Analyze memory, archiving, and digital afterlives through the lens of gendered and sexualized violence, precarity, or visibility.

• Rethink the digital commons and public/private binaries in relation to digital representation and identity politics. 

• Investigate the intersections of cyber technologies, affect, and statecraft, particularly within postcolonial or decolonial contexts.

• Theorize how cyber-intimacies complicate or reshape existing paradigms in international relations, security studies, and political theory.

Submission Guidelines

• Abstracts (300 words) should clearly outline the key arguments, methodology (if applicable), and the theoretical contribution of your proposed chapter.

• Please include a short bio (100 words) including institutional affiliation, location, and relevant publications or work (academic or activist).

• Final chapter contributions (if accepted) should be 6,000–7,000 words, including references.

Contact & Submission

Please submit abstracts and bios via this link: https://forms.office.com/r/wi57rF5Ja8  

For questions or expressions of interest, feel free to reach out in advance to Prateek Srivastava, srivaspe@mail.uc.edu, Stephen Bryant, bryansh@mail.uc.edu, and/or Amy Lind, lindac@mail.uc.edu. 

We aim to provide detailed feedback to submissions we do not accept for this project and also assist in finding suitable publication avenues if we cannot include your chapter in this collection. Please expect to hear back from us in early January 2026.