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Call for Papers| Beyond the Binary. Challenges and Opportunities of a Gender Revolution

The call "Beyond the Binary. Challenges and Opportunities of a Gender Revolution" invites research contributions from the field of social sciences and humanities aimed at exploring the experiences of non-binary identities across multiple dimensions:

  • Linguistic, terminological, and identity evolutions related to the concept of "non-binary" and their impact on processes of subjectivation
  • Media representation
  • Communities: queerness, transness, neuroqueerness
  • Alliances
  • Intersectional domains: age, disability, neurodiversity, fatness, racialization, class
  • Impact of stigma and mental health
  • Relationships and sexuality
  • Gender euphoria and other individual communal affirmative experiences
  • Current policies and sociopolitical contexts
  • Juridical aspects
  • Acts of resistance and strategies of "hacking" the system
  • Implications for rethinking gender, social change and social justice.

Deadline: November 30, 2025.

Papers, which may be written in English, Italian or Spanish, must be submitted along with a short abstract (maximum 300 words) outlining the research's significance, methodology and main findings through the journal's submission platform avaible at the following link.

All accepted papers will be published in open access.

Editors: Mariella Popolla (University of Genoa, Italy), Fau Rosati (University of Rome Sapienza), Emanuela Abbatecola (University of Genoa, Italy), Arantxa Grau i Muñoz (University of Valencia, Spain), Barbara Risman (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)