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Travis Alabanza: None of the Above (2022, Canongate Books) 5 stars

‘When you are someone that falls outside of categories in so many ways, a lot …

Review of 'None of the Above' on 'Storygraph'

5 stars

Travis takes phrases said to them over their life as an out nonbinary mixed-race individual and uses them to reconceptualise what it means to be nonbinary in a world of enforced binaries and transphobia. It was a hard read, especially in relation to how much we change ourselves to fit the expectations of cishet society or even the problems within the queer community itself. But it is a strong retrospective on trans existence, resistance and joy.