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Nonbinary Life

An Autotheory

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Nonbinary Life

An Autotheory

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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

Part I
16 Bars
Carrying What is Not Mine to Carry
“Gender is Not the Thing”

Part II
Burner Gender
The Evil Triplet

Part III
A Man's World
Redwoods
NBFFs (Nonbinary Friends Forever)

Epilogue

Product details

Bloomsbury Academic Test
Published Apr 16 2026
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 176
ISBN 9781350588943
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions 8 x 5 inches
Series Transgender Theory
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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