A review by sakisreads
None of the Above: Reflections on Life beyond the Binary by Travis Alabanza

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

4.5

This is such an important read. I kept meaning to buy it and read it and I’m so grateful I was finally able to 🥹

Travis Alabanza is incredible; they have picked every word in this book to make you think. The phrases they chose for each part of the book were upsetting but necessary. I will put the content warnings below!

‘Ladies, gentlemen and those lucky enough to transcend gender’; such a phenomenal phrase! Alabanza taught me about David Hoyle as well, which was a treat 🥳

The phrase ‘children sacrificed to appease trans lobby’ becoming ‘all of us sacrificed to appease the gender binary’ hit me HARD 😳

I will never forget the bit where the rich white woman Travis meets at a gala asks ‘So, when did you know?’ and Travis answers back with that tale where they get taken to the doctor for a lack of speech and says to the doctor ‘Doctor, I am actually a cross-dressing, gender non-conforming deviant’ 😂 I can only imagine the look on the woman’s face 👏🏼 This part truly made me cackle!

4.5 stars out of 5 stars for me, thank you ✨ I’m definitely going to need to come back to this one 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️❤️
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