GenIUS – Italy’s top journal on law, gender, and sexuality – will dedicate a special issue to “Non-binary identities and the law”, edited by Guido Noto La Diega (he/they/lui, University of Stirling) and Alexander Schuster (he/him, University of Verona). GenIUS is a double-blind peer-reviewed fully open access and online-first journal that features publications in Italian, English, Spanish, and French.
We are seeking 8,000-12,000-word contributions that shine a light on non-binary identities, people, and communities. Typically drafted by binary legislators and in binary terms, the law not only offers limited (if any) protections to non-binary people, but it often actively discriminates against them, creating artificial hurdles that unjustifiably affect non-binary people’s lives.
With this in mind, we seek diverse perspectives capable of conveying also activists’ viewpoints and covering a variety of issues, including (but not limited to):
- Passports, identity documents and gender markers
- Electoral procedures and forced outing
- Comparisons between different jurisdictions’ approaches to non-binary identities
- Non-binarism in Constitutional Law
- Gender markers and population registries
- Efforts of de-gendering legal systems
- From “queering” the law to “enbying” the law
- Non-binary reality Vs binary law
- Non-binary legal research methods
- Origins of the gender binary in the Italian legal system e.g. is it an implicit principle similar to what was said about the requirement of gender diversity in marriage?
- Non-binarism in private international law
- Intersections between intersex people, trans people and non-binary identities
- Free movement of non-binary people under EU law
- Non-discrimination and hate speech laws
- Any other topic or approach that the special editors may have overlooked
Please send us (gn12@stir.ac.uk) a 200-word abstract and a 200-word bio by Monday 1st July 2024. Deadline for the submission of the full paper: Monday 30th September 2024.
Prof. Guido Noto La Diega 