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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

Author's (love) note (Introduction)

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

Bloomsbury Academic Test
Published 19 Mar 2026
Format Ebook (PDF)
Edition 1st
Extent 176
ISBN 9781350588950
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Series Transgender Theory
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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