Christine Quinan
Biographic Data
| ID | 642385 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christine Quinan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christine |
| FAMILY NAME | Quinan |
| SIGNATURE | QUINAN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0140-6497 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The future of nonbinary
The increasing visibility of nonbinary identities puts the term ‘nonbinary’ at risk of becoming just another identity category, obscuring its potential for critical engagement. In taking seriously nonbinary’s disruptive potential in the world while resisting the temptation to treat it as a final destination, we ask: In what directions does the concept of nonbinary lead us? What kinds of futures, possibilities, and limitations does it encompass? H…
Skin in the game: Notes on pronouns and nonbinary experience
This text attempts to work through the author’s frustration with nonbinary’s move away from transness and loss of radical potentialities by interrogating who gets to claim historically oppressed identity categories without having any skin in the game. While nonbinary identities can visually manifest in diverse ways, they have largely been reduced to a donning of they/them pronouns without the risks attached to living a gender-nonconforming life. …
Replication and Recognition
Advanced biometric technologies-including automatic gender recognition tools-pose obstacles for trans and nonbinary populations in several spheres.In relying on false understandings of gender as static and physiological, binarybased biometric technologies force trans and nonbinary bodies to conform to these systems in order to become legible subjects inside systems of border control and security (Hamidi et al. 2018;Keyes 2018;Quinan and Hunt 2022…
From criminalization to erasure: Project 2025 and anti-trans legislation in the US
The past two decades have largely been characterized by mainstream media as emancipatory for LGBTQ communities; indeed, queer and trans people have achieved many legal wins. But despite what has appeared to be a slow march to acceptance and inclusion, the post-marriage equality era has ushered in a virulent form of backlash wherein trans communities are demonized and criminalized through an abundance of anti-trans laws and policies, many of which…
Queering and decolonising the museum: ‘In the Presence of Absence’ exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum
This review engages with the recent ‘In the Presence of Absence’ exhibition (2020–2021), which was held at the Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art (Amsterdam, the Netherlands). By focusing on three artistic interventions included in the exhibition (Werker Collective’s ‘A Gestural History of the Young Worker’, Farida Sedoc’s ‘The Future Ain’t What it Used to Be’, and Jennifer Tee’s ‘Tampan Ship of Souls #2’ and ‘Tampan the Collected Bodies’), we aim to…
Queering memory: Toward re-membering otherwise
This editorial introduction provides a theoretical framework for analyzing relationships between gender, sexuality, and memory. Using the concept of queering memory, the special issue proposes queering memory as a practice of innovative and generative history-making that has the capacity to reorder time and memory. The contributions collected in this special issue take up the notions of “queer” and “queering” in their multiple forms, not only in …
An Archive of Feelings @ 20: An interview with Ann Cvetkovich
Feminist and queer studies scholar Ann Cvetkovich’s trailblazing book An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures has had an immense influence on the field of memory studies, inspiring new bodies of scholarship on queerness, trauma, and memory. In this interview, Cvetkovich discusses the impact that some of the book’s central concepts have had on the field of memory studies over the last 20 years. Cvetkovich also reflec…
Homonationalism, Femonationalism and Ablenationalism: Critical Pedagogies Contextualised
Biometric Bordering and Automatic Gender Recognition: Challenging Binary Gender Norms in Everyday Biometric Technologies
With the rise of advanced biometric technologies, the surveilling of populations who do not match racial and gender norms has increased. Modern-day biometrics make assumptions about gender and race based on skin color, facial structure, body type, and body parts, which are encoded in predictive algorithms and other AI-driven systems. Growing empirical evidence points to the obstacles this poses for trans and non-binary individuals in several sphe…
Transfilial negotiations and palimpsestuous traces: Queering postcolonial memory and intergenerational transmission
The Queer Outside in Law: Recognising LGBTIQ People in the United Kingdom , edited by Senthorun Raj and Peter Dunne
Although lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and queer (LGBTIQ) legal recognition has long been a topic of academic and activist investigation and analysis, it has, as of late, taken on a renewed sense of urgency as laws and policies around the world have been attempting to be more inclusive of gender and sexual minorities. From marriage-equality legislation to gender recognition acts, LGBTIQ communities have seen unprecedented change …
Non-binary gender markers: Mobility, migration, and media reception in Europe and beyond
Although European Union legal frameworks tend to conceive of sex and gender in binary terms, a growing number of countries in Europe and around the world have been increasingly allowing for third gender markers and non-binary possibilities in identity documents, passports, and public registries, of which the X marker in the sex or gender field has become the most common. However, initiatives like the X, which may initially signal trans-friendline…
A Biometric Logic of Revelation: Zach Blas’s SANCTUM (2018)
Ubiquitous in airports, border checkpoints, and other securitised spaces throughout the world, full-body imaging scanners claim to read bodies in order to identify if they pose security threats. Millimetre-wave body imaging machines—the most common type of body scanner—display to the operating security agent a screen with a generic body outline. If an anomaly is found or if an individual does not align with the machine’s understanding of an “aver…
Gender at the Border: Global Responses to Gender-Diverse Subjectivities and Nonbinary Registration Practices
Respect for transgender rights broadly and recognition of nonbinary gender specifically have given rise to global legislative and policy-level reforms that purport to rectify discrimination faced by transgender and gender-diverse populations when traveling or migrating. In several countries, for example, the binary options “male” and “female” have been extended to include other possibilities in legal and travel documents, such as X, third gender,…
Toby Beauchamp, Going Stealth: Transgender Politics and U.S. Surveillance Practices
In the introduction to Going Stealth: Transgender Politics and U
Biopolitics, necropolitics, cosmopolitics - feminist and queer interventions: An Introduction
I.In 2015, first-time feature filmmaker Morgan Knibbe released to critical acclaim Those Who Feel the Fire Burning(2015), a documentary film that creatively examines what in mainstream discourses h
Lisa Downing, Iain Morland and Nikki Sullivan, Fuckology: Critical Essays on John Money's Diagnostic Concepts
Postcolonial Memory and Masculinity in Algeria: Alain Resnais's Absent ‘Muriel’
This essay analyses Muriel (1963), the third feature-length film from Alain Resnais, which attempts to make sense of a fragmented past and present that have been torn apart by international wars and domestic conflicts. The film highlights the multitude of silences and amnesias surrounding the French–Algerian War and its remembrances (or lack thereof) as the nation struggled to come to terms with colonial guilt. After mapping out the ways in which…
Technocrats and Tortured Bodies: Simone de Beauvoir's Les Belles Images
Through an analysis of Simone de Beauvoir's final novel Les Belles Images (1966), this article examines how a 1960s French technocratic class dealt with individual and collective traumas, particularly how they placed their faith in an undying hope in the future while simultaneously ignoring the horrors of wartime violence. The article contends that Beauvoir's novel is a story of not remembering—or, more specifically, attempting to forget—Algeria …
Veiling Unveiled: Female Embodiment and Action in Assia Djebar's Les Enfants Du Nouveau Monde and Les Alouettes Naïves
“The veiling and unveiling of the body highlights the body as machinery, and indeed as a technology of both war and the everyday.” —Ranjana Khanna A compelling trope that emerges in literary and hi
Biopolitics, necropolitics, cosmopolitics - feminist and queer interventions: An Introduction
I.In 2015, first-time feature filmmaker Morgan Knibbe released to critical acclaim Those Who Feel the Fire Burning(2015), a documentary film that creatively examines what in mainstream discourses h
From criminalization to erasure: Project 2025 and anti-trans legislation in the US
The past two decades have largely been characterized by mainstream media as emancipatory for LGBTQ communities; indeed, queer and trans people have achieved many legal wins. But despite what has appeared to be a slow march to acceptance and inclusion, the post-marriage equality era has ushered in a virulent form of backlash wherein trans communities are demonized and criminalized through an abundance of anti-trans laws and policies, many of which…
Non-binary gender markers: Mobility, migration, and media reception in Europe and beyond
Although European Union legal frameworks tend to conceive of sex and gender in binary terms, a growing number of countries in Europe and around the world have been increasingly allowing for third gender markers and non-binary possibilities in identity documents, passports, and public registries, of which the X marker in the sex or gender field has become the most common. However, initiatives like the X, which may initially signal trans-friendline…
Biometric Bordering and Automatic Gender Recognition: Challenging Binary Gender Norms in Everyday Biometric Technologies
With the rise of advanced biometric technologies, the surveilling of populations who do not match racial and gender norms has increased. Modern-day biometrics make assumptions about gender and race based on skin color, facial structure, body type, and body parts, which are encoded in predictive algorithms and other AI-driven systems. Growing empirical evidence points to the obstacles this poses for trans and non-binary individuals in several sphe…
Gender at the Border: Global Responses to Gender-Diverse Subjectivities and Nonbinary Registration Practices
Respect for transgender rights broadly and recognition of nonbinary gender specifically have given rise to global legislative and policy-level reforms that purport to rectify discrimination faced by transgender and gender-diverse populations when traveling or migrating. In several countries, for example, the binary options “male” and “female” have been extended to include other possibilities in legal and travel documents, such as X, third gender,…
Queering memory: Toward re-membering otherwise
This editorial introduction provides a theoretical framework for analyzing relationships between gender, sexuality, and memory. Using the concept of queering memory, the special issue proposes queering memory as a practice of innovative and generative history-making that has the capacity to reorder time and memory. The contributions collected in this special issue take up the notions of “queer” and “queering” in their multiple forms, not only in …
Toby Beauchamp, Going Stealth: Transgender Politics and U.S. Surveillance Practices
In the introduction to Going Stealth: Transgender Politics and U
Technocrats and Tortured Bodies: Simone de Beauvoir's Les Belles Images
Through an analysis of Simone de Beauvoir's final novel Les Belles Images (1966), this article examines how a 1960s French technocratic class dealt with individual and collective traumas, particularly how they placed their faith in an undying hope in the future while simultaneously ignoring the horrors of wartime violence. The article contends that Beauvoir's novel is a story of not remembering—or, more specifically, attempting to forget—Algeria …
Veiling Unveiled: Female Embodiment and Action in Assia Djebar's Les Enfants Du Nouveau Monde and Les Alouettes Naïves
“The veiling and unveiling of the body highlights the body as machinery, and indeed as a technology of both war and the everyday.” —Ranjana Khanna A compelling trope that emerges in literary and hi
Technocrats and Tortured Bodies: Simone de Beauvoir's Les Belles Images
Through an analysis of Simone de Beauvoir's final novel Les Belles Images (1966), this article examines how a 1960s French technocratic class dealt with individual and collective traumas, particularly how they placed their faith in an undying hope in the future while simultaneously ignoring the horrors of wartime violence. The article contends that Beauvoir's novel is a story of not remembering—or, more specifically, attempting to forget—Algeria …
Postcolonial Memory and Masculinity in Algeria: Alain Resnais's Absent ‘Muriel’
This essay analyses Muriel (1963), the third feature-length film from Alain Resnais, which attempts to make sense of a fragmented past and present that have been torn apart by international wars and domestic conflicts. The film highlights the multitude of silences and amnesias surrounding the French–Algerian War and its remembrances (or lack thereof) as the nation struggled to come to terms with colonial guilt. After mapping out the ways in which…
Lisa Downing, Iain Morland and Nikki Sullivan, Fuckology: Critical Essays on John Money's Diagnostic Concepts
A Biometric Logic of Revelation: Zach Blas’s SANCTUM (2018)
Ubiquitous in airports, border checkpoints, and other securitised spaces throughout the world, full-body imaging scanners claim to read bodies in order to identify if they pose security threats. Millimetre-wave body imaging machines—the most common type of body scanner—display to the operating security agent a screen with a generic body outline. If an anomaly is found or if an individual does not align with the machine’s understanding of an “aver…
Gender at the Border: Global Responses to Gender-Diverse Subjectivities and Nonbinary Registration Practices
Respect for transgender rights broadly and recognition of nonbinary gender specifically have given rise to global legislative and policy-level reforms that purport to rectify discrimination faced by transgender and gender-diverse populations when traveling or migrating. In several countries, for example, the binary options “male” and “female” have been extended to include other possibilities in legal and travel documents, such as X, third gender,…
Toby Beauchamp, Going Stealth: Transgender Politics and U.S. Surveillance Practices
In the introduction to Going Stealth: Transgender Politics and U
Biopolitics, necropolitics, cosmopolitics - feminist and queer interventions: An Introduction
I.In 2015, first-time feature filmmaker Morgan Knibbe released to critical acclaim Those Who Feel the Fire Burning(2015), a documentary film that creatively examines what in mainstream discourses h
Transfilial negotiations and palimpsestuous traces: Queering postcolonial memory and intergenerational transmission
The Queer Outside in Law: Recognising LGBTIQ People in the United Kingdom , edited by Senthorun Raj and Peter Dunne
Although lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and queer (LGBTIQ) legal recognition has long been a topic of academic and activist investigation and analysis, it has, as of late, taken on a renewed sense of urgency as laws and policies around the world have been attempting to be more inclusive of gender and sexual minorities. From marriage-equality legislation to gender recognition acts, LGBTIQ communities have seen unprecedented change …
Non-binary gender markers: Mobility, migration, and media reception in Europe and beyond
Although European Union legal frameworks tend to conceive of sex and gender in binary terms, a growing number of countries in Europe and around the world have been increasingly allowing for third gender markers and non-binary possibilities in identity documents, passports, and public registries, of which the X marker in the sex or gender field has become the most common. However, initiatives like the X, which may initially signal trans-friendline…
Homonationalism, Femonationalism and Ablenationalism: Critical Pedagogies Contextualised
Biometric Bordering and Automatic Gender Recognition: Challenging Binary Gender Norms in Everyday Biometric Technologies
With the rise of advanced biometric technologies, the surveilling of populations who do not match racial and gender norms has increased. Modern-day biometrics make assumptions about gender and race based on skin color, facial structure, body type, and body parts, which are encoded in predictive algorithms and other AI-driven systems. Growing empirical evidence points to the obstacles this poses for trans and non-binary individuals in several sphe…
Queering and decolonising the museum: ‘In the Presence of Absence’ exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum
This review engages with the recent ‘In the Presence of Absence’ exhibition (2020–2021), which was held at the Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art (Amsterdam, the Netherlands). By focusing on three artistic interventions included in the exhibition (Werker Collective’s ‘A Gestural History of the Young Worker’, Farida Sedoc’s ‘The Future Ain’t What it Used to Be’, and Jennifer Tee’s ‘Tampan Ship of Souls #2’ and ‘Tampan the Collected Bodies’), we aim to…
Queering memory: Toward re-membering otherwise
This editorial introduction provides a theoretical framework for analyzing relationships between gender, sexuality, and memory. Using the concept of queering memory, the special issue proposes queering memory as a practice of innovative and generative history-making that has the capacity to reorder time and memory. The contributions collected in this special issue take up the notions of “queer” and “queering” in their multiple forms, not only in …
An Archive of Feelings @ 20: An interview with Ann Cvetkovich
Feminist and queer studies scholar Ann Cvetkovich’s trailblazing book An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures has had an immense influence on the field of memory studies, inspiring new bodies of scholarship on queerness, trauma, and memory. In this interview, Cvetkovich discusses the impact that some of the book’s central concepts have had on the field of memory studies over the last 20 years. Cvetkovich also reflec…
Replication and Recognition
Advanced biometric technologies-including automatic gender recognition tools-pose obstacles for trans and nonbinary populations in several spheres.In relying on false understandings of gender as static and physiological, binarybased biometric technologies force trans and nonbinary bodies to conform to these systems in order to become legible subjects inside systems of border control and security (Hamidi et al. 2018;Keyes 2018;Quinan and Hunt 2022…
From criminalization to erasure: Project 2025 and anti-trans legislation in the US
The past two decades have largely been characterized by mainstream media as emancipatory for LGBTQ communities; indeed, queer and trans people have achieved many legal wins. But despite what has appeared to be a slow march to acceptance and inclusion, the post-marriage equality era has ushered in a virulent form of backlash wherein trans communities are demonized and criminalized through an abundance of anti-trans laws and policies, many of which…
The future of nonbinary
The increasing visibility of nonbinary identities puts the term ‘nonbinary’ at risk of becoming just another identity category, obscuring its potential for critical engagement. In taking seriously nonbinary’s disruptive potential in the world while resisting the temptation to treat it as a final destination, we ask: In what directions does the concept of nonbinary lead us? What kinds of futures, possibilities, and limitations does it encompass? H…
Skin in the game: Notes on pronouns and nonbinary experience
This text attempts to work through the author’s frustration with nonbinary’s move away from transness and loss of radical potentialities by interrogating who gets to claim historically oppressed identity categories without having any skin in the game. While nonbinary identities can visually manifest in diverse ways, they have largely been reduced to a donning of they/them pronouns without the risks attached to living a gender-nonconforming life. …
Sociology (12 works) · Political science (10 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Art (7 works) · Law (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Queer (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works)