None of the Above

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Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary

In sechs Essays betrachtet Travis Alabanza die Sätze: „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.“ Alabanza nimmt trans*feindliche Äußerungen und Annahmen kritisch auseinander, reflektiert their Erfahrungen und verliert dabei den Humor nicht. Ein wichtiges Buch in einer Zeit in der trans*feindliche Stimmen wieder lauter werden. Das Buch endet damit, dass wir unsere Leben für uns selbst leben und die, die uns wertschätzen und lieben.

Verlagsbeschreibung:

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

'When you are someone that falls outside of categories in so many ways, a lot of things are said to you. And I have had a lot of things said to me.'In None of the Above, Travis Alabanza examines seven phrases people have directed at them about their gender identity. These phrases have stayed with them over the years.

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, which include some of their most transformative experiences as a Black, mixed race, non binary person, 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.