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Description
Nonbinary Life is an invitation to imagine the possibilities of life outside of gender.
To write, to think, to imagine, to agitate, and to love without regard for gender is what might be called a nonbinary way of life. In this genre-defying work of autotheory, Marquis Bey proposes a radical refusal: to relinquish gender as a framework we carry – for ourselves and for others – and to embrace modes of being that exist outside of its grasp. What if we no longer let gender be a way of organizing ourselves?
Spanning the question of pronouns, masculinity, love, family, language, and even the Redwood National Forest, Nonbinary Life blends memoir and theory to provide a robust and personal treatment of what it means to live beyond the binary.
Table of Contents
Part One
1. Carrying What is Not Mine to Carry
2. Gender is Not the Thing
Part Two
3. Burner Gender
4. He/They, She/They
Part Three
5. A Man's World
6. 16 bars
Part Four
7. nbffs (nonbinary friends forever)
Redwoods (Conclusion)
Index
Product details
| Published | Mar 10 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 192 |
| ISBN | 9781350588950 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Series | Transgender Theory |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
About the contributors
Reviews
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Marquis Bey's Non-Binary Life is a lovely and poetic personal meditation on living non-binary in a way-too-binary world-on race and class and burner genders, on the real cost of telling gender truths, and of sometimes just saying 'Sorry, but no' to gender.
Riki Wilchins, activist and author of books including Let's (Not) Talk About (Transgender) Sex, (Bloomsbury, 2026)

























