None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary

An electric memoir about what it means to live outside the gender boundaries imposed on us by society, from the award-winning trans writer and performer A WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2022: POLITICS ‘No memoir like it’ – Independent ‘Travis Alabanza writes with such generosity and ease even the most provocative suggestions start to seem obvious . . . Profound and funny’ – SHON FAYE ‘Will challenge, empower and move your soul’ – Glamour ‘Lucid and glorious’ – YRSA DALEY-WARD In None of the Above, Travis Alabanza examines seven phrases people have directed at them as a Black, mixed race, non-binary person. Some are deceptively innocuous, some deliberately loaded or offensive, some celebratory; sentences that have impacted them for better and for worse; sentences that speak to the broader issues raised by a world that insists that gender must be a binary. Through these seven phrases, Travis Alabanza turns a mirror back on society, giving us reason to question the very framework in which we live and the ways we treat each other. — ISBN13: 9781838854331