Nonbinary Life

An Autotheory

Professor Marquis Bey (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

176 Seiten

2026
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-58893-6 (ISBN)

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The first sustained treatment of nonbinary theory, transgender theory and the gender binary from the perspective of nonbinariness providing a lyrical, personal and theoretical account

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.

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)

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	16.4.2026
Reihe/Serie	Transgender Theory
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-350-58893-8 / 1350588938
ISBN-13	978-1-350-58893-6 / 9781350588936
Zustand	Neuware