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

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fynn_jls's review against another edition

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challenging emotional medium-paced

4.5

Very very heavy & intense to read. Most of the book focuses on the hurt that we as nonbinary/gender nonconforming people experience in society

I wonder [...] If the reason I never see older gender-non-conforming people on the streets is because we eventually get tired of being the freaks everyone looks at? That eventually, we know in order to live peacefully, we must choose one or the other?

They mention that it feels like their choices are either to change medically and be seen as a woman, or to quit and allow people to misgender them for the peace of not fighting. They talk about how it feels like there is just one option or the other, despite feeling and knowing they are between things.

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ecster's review against another edition

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challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.75

Nothing short of life changing stuff on gender and non-binary folks' place outside it. Less a memoir and more ruminating on gender. Alabanza is a gift to this world.
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