Ida Hillerup Hansen is a Lecturer in Gender and Postcolonial studies at Utrecht University’s Graduate Gender Studies Programme. They hold a dual PhD degree from the Department of Gender Studies at Central European University and the Department of Media and Culture Studies at Utrecht University. Ida’s teaching and research interests include feminist onto-epistemology and anti-essentialism 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 has published in the domain of Queer Death Studies and contributed in writing on the museum collection catalogue as onto-genetic vehicle for a project to Un/engender the Collection at the Research Center for Material Culture. They are currently working on an article series on the autothanatography of Joan Didion and preparing a research project on the bio-necro-politics of grief as psychiatryc 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, on 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.