Red Washburn
Red Washburn, PhD, is Associate Professor of English and Director of Women’s and
Gender Studies at Kingsborough Community College. They also are Adjunct Associate
Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center.
Red’s articles appear in Journal for the Study of Radicalism, Women’s Studies: An
Interdisciplinary Journal, Journal of Lesbian Studies, Theory and Praxis: Women’s and
Gender Studies at Community Colleges, and Introduction to Women’s, Gender, and
Sexuality Studies: Interdisciplinary and Intersectional Approaches. Their poetry
collection Crestview Tree Woman was published by Finishing Line Press. They are the
co-editor of Sinister Wisdom’s Celebrating the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival,
Dump Trump: Legacies of Resistance, and 45 Years: A Tribute to Lesbian Herstory
Archives. Red is a coordinator at the Lesbian Herstory Archives and of the Rainbow
Book Fair, on the board of directors of Sinister Wisdom and the Center for LGBTQ
Studies (CLAGS), and a review chair for the National Women’s Studies Association
(NWSA).