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Dr. Red Washburn'

Dr. Red Washburn

Publications

Dr. Red Washburn, associate professor of English and women's and gender studies, has two newly released books.

"Birch Philosopher X " is a collection of poems that serve as a queer thread connecting past, present and future. JP Howard, author of "SAY/MIRROR" writes, "Their poems interrogate, explore, educate, and take us on a journey. They ask, “What story does the body tell?” and their poems answer/deconstruct/analyze the body in unexpected ways. Poems that document the narrator’s trans identity are especially powerful. These poems are doing that life work and we, the reader, are left better for it."

For more information on this book, visit HERE.

 Birch Philosopher X

Washburn’s "Irish Women’s Prison Writing" explores 50 years of Irish women’s prison writing from the 1960s to the 2010s. It connects the work of "women leaders and the writers in the Six Counties of Ireland during the Troubles."

For more information on this book, visit HERE.

 ’’’Irish Womens Prison Writing

Dr. Red Washburn's $40,000 Mellon/ACLS Community College Faculty Fellowship

Dr. Red Washburn, associate professor of English and director of Women’s and Gender Studies at Kingsborough Community College, was awarded a $40,000 Mellon/ACLS Community College Faculty Fellowship for their project Nonbin@ry: Tr@ns-Forming Gender and Genre in Nonbin@ry Literature, Performance, and Visual Art. It explores the concept of nonbin@ry as a new configuration of identities, bodies, and families beyond binaries, kinships, and borders in culture and society.

In addition, “nonbin@ry” offers alternatives to categories of knowledge in traditional genres and disciplines, evidenced in the fashionable and flourishing transdisciplinary canon of nonbin@ry literature, performance, and visual art. The project focuses on the literary and performance art work of Akwaeke Emezi’s “Freshwater,” Alok Vaid-Menon’s “Beyond the Gender Binary,” Jacob Tobia’s “Sissy,” Andrea Gibson’s “Lord of the Butterflies,” Rivers Solomon’s “The Unkindness of Ghosts,” Danez Smith’s “Homie,” and Andrea Lawlor’s “Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl.”.