What can we learn from what's deemed "invisible"? How is the international relations system shaped by sexuality and gender? Why are IR university centers of study and think tanks reproducing patriarchal and androcentric views of the world? From a Queer Theory lenses, how are these labour and ideological decisions tied to political economy and marginalization strategies?
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Recommended readings

Why is there no queer international theory? - Cynthia Weber 
From Queer to Queer IR - Cynthia Weber
Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Sex (in IR) But were Afraid to Ask: The ‘Queer Turn’ in International Relations
Queering the Politics of Global Sexual Rights? - Leticia Sabsay 
Neoliberal Geopolitical Order and Value - Anna Agathangelou 
QUEER FEMINIST INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: UNEASY ALLIANCES, PRODUCTIVE TENSIONS - Darcy LEIGH
International Relations and the Invisible Queer - Kathryn Constantinides
La Nación Heterosexual - Ochy Curiel
Towards trans-gendering IR? - Laura Sjoberg
Sexualities in World Politics: How LGBTQ Claims Shape International Relations (2015) 
Gays in the Military: Texts and Subtexts