Hannah Leffingwell

Hannah Leffingwell is a writer, historian, artist, and educator specializing in queer and gender history, feminist and queer theory, lesbian culture(s), and contemporary LGBTQ+ and feminist social movements. In addition to her role as associate faculty at BISR, she has taught at The New School as a member of the part-time faculty and at NYU as an assistant instructor. Her research chronicles transnational lesbian organizing in the 1970s-90s and has been featured on Outhistory.org, Gender & History, and is forthcoming in an edited collection for Bloomsbury Academic. She holds a PhD in History and French Studies from New York University, where she defended her dissertation, “Becoming Lesbian: The Making and Unmaking of the International Lesbian Movement, 1972-1998,” in 2024. Her writing has also appeared in Jacobin, The Chronicle Review, Public Seminar, Political Junkie, Eurozine, Sinister Wisdom, and the Journal of the History of Ideas Blog. She is also active on Substack, where she writes a newsletter called “The Dykegeist.”