Nonbinary

This issue of the award-winning journal WSQ explores the term “nonbinary” as a theoretical framework to understand resistance and liberation.

Feminist theory has long focused upon the problematic aspects of binary thinking, whether in relation to the dyads of nature/culture, sex/gender, biology/culture, human/nonhuman, or the individual/collective. This special issue of WSQ reflects upon the work that the word nonbinary does in terms of unsettling the codes of gender, sexuality, race, and other categories of being and knowing, and posits how nonbinary thinking might be a way to enact a fully feminist life.

Red Washburn is the author of the academic monograph Irish Women’s Prison Writing: Mother Ireland’s Rebels, 1960-2010s as well as the poetry collections Crestview Tree Woman and Birch Philosopher X. They are Professor of English and Director of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Queens College as well as Affiliate Faculty in Women’s and Gender Studies at the Graduate Center (CUNY).

JV Fuqua grew up in Texas. Fuqua has a PhD in Cultural and Critical Studies from the University of Pittsburgh and is an associate professor of media history and theory in the Department of Media Studies at Queens College. Fuqua is also the director of the Women and Gender Studies Program at Queens College. Their first monograph Prescription TV: Therapeutic Discourse in the Hospital and at Home was published in 2012 by Duke University Press. Fuqua is an internationally recognized scholar who has served on the board of the international feminist media collective, “Console-ing Passions” and is currently a member of the editorial board of WSQ.