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Nonbinary Life
Transgender Theory (Related to this series)
- Author
- Marquis Bey
- Narrator
- Savannah Beckford
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Publish Date
- 21 May 2026
- Run Time
- 6 hours 4 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
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 to lead a non-binary 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.
Spanning questions of pronouns, masculinity, love, family, language, and even the Redwood National Forest, Nonbinary Life blends memoir and theory to provide a philosophical meditation on what it means to live beyond the binary
Critics Review
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When Marquis Bey pronounces the word nonbinary, it rhymes simultaneously with abolition, utopia, nope, and why not? Rather than launching a counterpolemic to characterizations of the nonbinary as a positionality without a politics, Bey disengages from those agonistics to imagine a freedom beyond the carcerality of gender.
Professor Susan Stryker, author and co-editor of books including Transgender History (2008), The Transgender Studies Reader Remix (2022), and When Monsters Speak: A Susan Stryker Reader (2024).
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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)
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Details
- Author
- Marquis Bey
- Narrator
- Savannah Beckford
- Duration
- 6 hours 4 minutes
- Release Date
- 21 May 2026
- ISBN
- 9781350638082
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Genre
- Popular philosophy, Gender studies: ‘trans’, transgender people and gender variance, Feminism and feminist theory
Synopsis
Bloomsbury presents Nonbinary Life: An Autotheory by Marquis Bey, read by Savannah BeckfordNonbinary 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 to lead a non-binary 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. Spanning questions of pronouns, masculinity, love, family, language, and even the Redwood National Forest, Nonbinary Life blends memoir and theory to provide a philosophical meditation on what it means to live beyond the binary
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