None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary by Travis Alabanza

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A nuanced and utterly gorgeous look at the expansiveness of gender, as framed by the loving and hateful comments trans folks experience day-to-day.

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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.