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.

[[[About the Author]]] Marquis Bey - Center for the Humanities

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 andCisgender (2022), Black Trans Feminism (2022), Anarcho-blackness: Notes Toward a Black Anarchism (2020), Them Goon Rules: Fugitive Essays on Radical Black Feminism (2019).

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Format	Paperback
Pages	176
Year Published	2026

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