None of the Above
Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary
Published on 17. October 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-1-55861-034-7 (ISBN)
Description
"A memoir exploring what it means to live outside the normative boundaries imposed by society, from an award-winning trans writer and performer. In None of the Above: Reflections on Life beyond the Binary, Travis Alabanza considers seven phrases people have directed at them throughout their life. These phrases-some deceptively innocuous, some deliberately loaded or violent, some celebratory-have fundamentally shaped Alabanza, both for better and for worse. But these phrases also illuminate broader issues about a world that insists on gender as a fixed identity. Alabanza considers the meaning of gender, and the role it plays in a world that rigidly and aggressively enforces the binary. Drawing from their experiences as a racialized queer person, Alabanza interrogates our current frameworks around identity and meditates on doubt and language"--
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 199 mm
Width: 124 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
266 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55861-034-7 (9781558610347)
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Persons
Travis Alabanza is an award-winning writer, performer and theatre maker. After being the youngest recipient of the Artist-in-Residency program at Tate Galleries, Alabanza’s debut show Burgerz toured internationally to sold-out performances in the Southbank Centre, Sao Paulo, Brazil, and HAU, Berlin, and won the Edinburgh Fringe Total Theatre Award. In 2020 their theatre show Overflow debuted at the Bush Theatre to widespread acclaim and later streamed online in over twenty countries. Their writing has appeared in the Guardian, VICE, gal-dem, and BBC Online, and they previously had a fortnightly column in the Metro. They have been published in numerous anthologies, including Black and Gay in the UK. Their work surrounding gender, trans identity, and race has garnered international recognition, and they have given talks at universities including Oxford, Harvard, Bristol, and more.
Alok Vaid-Menon is an internationally acclaimed author, poet, comedian, and public speaker. They are the author of Femme in Public, Beyond the Gender Binary, and Your Wound/My Garden. They have appeared on Netflix’s Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness, HBO’s Random Acts of Flyness, and The Trans List.
Alok Vaid-Menon is an internationally acclaimed author, poet, comedian, and public speaker. They are the author of Femme in Public, Beyond the Gender Binary, and Your Wound/My Garden. They have appeared on Netflix’s Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness, HBO’s Random Acts of Flyness, and The Trans List.
Content
Prologue
“So, when did you know?”
“But I mean, proper trans.”
“Ladies, gentlemen, and those lucky enough to transcend gender.”
“This ain’t a thing we do round here, son.”
“So, what do you want me to call it?”
“Children sacrificed to appease trans lobby.”
“This is for us, baby, not for them.”
Acknowledgements
“So, when did you know?”
“But I mean, proper trans.”
“Ladies, gentlemen, and those lucky enough to transcend gender.”
“This ain’t a thing we do round here, son.”
“So, what do you want me to call it?”
“Children sacrificed to appease trans lobby.”
“This is for us, baby, not for them.”
Acknowledgements