Ida Hillerup Hansen is a Lecturer in Gender and Postcolonial studies at Utrecht 木瓜福利影视鈥檚 Graduate Gender Studies Programme. They hold a dual PhD degree from the Department of Gender Studies at Central European 木瓜福利影视 and the Department of Media and Culture Studies at Utrecht 木瓜福利影视. Ida鈥檚 teaching and research interests include onto-epistemology and anti-separatism in queer, black and postcolonial scholarship, feminist and queer uses of psychoanalytic theory and critical approaches to biomedicine and psychiatry, including theories of trauma, affect and embodiment, as well as theories of bio- and necropolitics. Ida is currently writing an article series on the autothanatography of Joan Didion and preparing a research project on the bio-necro-politics of grief as psychiatric diagnosis based on, and expanding, their PhD dissertation Being Through Loss: A Queer Performative Reckoning with Grief. Ida shares the editorship with Prof. emerita Nina Lykke for a special issue for the journal Mortality on Queer Death Studies: Loss and Grief in Contemporary Landscapes of Bio- and Necropolitics, they are a member of the Queer Death Studies Network, and they are a co-founder of the Relation(al) Matters Archive with Prof. dr. Kathrin Thiele.