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 Who gets to be a citizen? Who gets to be enfranchised to shape civic spaces and possibilities? Who gets to determine the conditions and possibilities for our livelihood? How do gender and sexuality function in a larger matrix of power relations to determine the scope of effective citizenship?

 How is the category of citizenship troubled by the gendered and intimate realities of globalized capital, labor migration, contemporary racism, intra- and international violence, and transnational affinities? How do “global”contexts shape struggles over human rights, personhood, and citizenship? What are the implications of rampant incarceration, urban gentrification, walled communities, forced migration, and the reign of markets for the meanings and possibilities of citizenship?

 How does the operation of globalized capital shape our experience of ourselves, our daily lives, and our relations with one another? What forms of cultural expression and political action can effectively limit and counter such effects or provide alternative ways of experiencing and shaping the world? What policy changes are possible or desirable in the face of the present crisis of citizenship? What are the implications of gender studies scholarship for struggles over citizenship and human rights?

 What civic or public spaces allow or enable “uncommon” conversations? Do women’s and gender studies programs and journals such as WSQ make possible the posing of questions that are critical to re-imagining the terms and conditions of our engagement with one another? Do gender studies and feminist/queer/gender theory offer avenues for identifying the problems we face in ways that open them up to possibilities of change and invite constructive action, innovation, transformation?