"When Marquis Bey pronounces the word nonbinary , it rhymes simultaneously with abolition, utopia, nope, and why not? Rather than launching a counterpolemic to characterizations of the nonbinary as a positionality without a politics, Bey disengages from those agonistics to imagine a freedom beyond the carcerality of gender." -- Professor Susan Stryker, author and co-editor of books including Transgender History (2008), The Transgender Studies Reader Remix (2022), and When Monsters Speak: A Susan Stryker Reader (2024). "Marquis Bey's Non-Binary Life is a lovely and poetic personal meditation on living non-binary in a way-too-binary world-on race and class and burner genders, on the real cost of telling gender truths, and of sometimes just saying ' Sorry, but no' to gender." -- Riki Wilchins, activist and author of books including Let's (Not) Talk About (Transgender) Sex, (Bloomsbury, 2026).