CS Shushok (C'24), an English and Geology major, published an opinion piece entitled, "I am a nonbinary young person in Tennessee: My dress is not drag" in the , which was then picked up by national outlets.
CS, who uses they/them pronouns, addresses the effect of drag bans on non-binary people, whose "everyday acts" of wearing clothing are not drag, but can come under the same punitive measures. They articulate how drag performers and non-binary people are not identical, and that mischaracterizing one as the other does harm to both. Their piece was picked up first by , and then by . Shushok, a standout English major, developed the piece through an assignment in Dr. Isabel Duarte-Gray's Studies in Poetry course.
