Julio César Díaz Calderón

Julio César Díaz Calderón (They/Them) is a trans/feminist activist-scholar, poet, data scientist, and street educator. Currently, they hold research positions at the School of International Service (American University, USA) and the Department of History (SRM University-AP, India). They are also the Founder and Co-Director of Security For All, a transfeminist Mexican non-governmental organization. They have been published in different peer-reviewed journals in International Relations, Gender Studies, Literature, and Mathematics including International Politics, Millennium: Journal of International Studies, Revista Interdisciplinaria de Estudios de Género de El Colegio de México, Latin American Literary Review, and The Art of Discrete and Applied Mathematics. They edited the special section on “Imagined and lived in/securities through poetry” in Critical Studies on Security (with Ahmad Qais Munhazim, 2024), the special issue on “The study of International Relations through queer/cuir and trans/feminist perspectives” in Relaciones Internacionales (with Gloria Cuesta Noguerales, 2025), and the edited volume Trans* and Marika Artivist Walks in Abya Yala (2026, Córdoba, Argentina: Pimienta Rosa; 2027, Cuzco, Peru: Proyecto Trakamemorias). Currently, they are editing the special issues on “Transnational Black Feminist Poetics/Politics” for the International Feminist Journal of Politics (with K. Melchor Quick Hall) and "Storytelling and International Relations: Pluriversality and the Undoing of Epistemic Violence" for International Relations (with Elane Westfaul), as well as the book on Storytelling the Social Sciences and Humanities (with Aqsa Agha).