Nonbinary Life

Name: Nonbinary Life
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ISBN: 9781350588936

An Autotheory

Professor Marquis Bey

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Bloomsbury Academic
16 April 2026

Popular philosophy; Feminism & feminist theory; Gender studies: transsexuals & hermaphroditism

Series: Transgender Theory

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

By: Professor Marquis Bey
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 206mm, Width: 126mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 300g
ISBN: 9781350588936
ISBN 10: 1350588938
Series: Transgender Theory
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 16 April 2026
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

Marquis Bey is Professor of Black Studies and Gender & Sexuality Studies at Northwestern University, USA. They are the author of Cistem Failure: Essays on Blackness and Cisgender (2022), Black Trans Feminism (2022), Anarcho-blackness: Notes Toward a Black Anarchism (2020), Them Goon Rules: Fugitive Essays on Radical Black Feminism (2019).

Reviews for Nonbinary Life: An Autotheory

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) *