None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary

Name: None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary
ISBN: 9781801106368

by Travis Alabanza

Jhalak Prize · 2023 · WinnerJhalak Prize · 2022 · ShortlistJhalak Prize · 2021 · Shortlist

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CanongateSeptember 1, 2022Nonfiction Biography & MemoirISBN 9781801106368

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
Jhalak Prize	2023	Winner	“For its personal and political interrogation of the gender binary — memoir that is also manifestation and argument.”
Jhalak Prize	2022	Shortlist
Jhalak Prize	2021	Shortlist

About This Book

Travis Alabanza's memoir and cultural essay interrogates the gender binary and the violence it enforces, drawing on their own experience as a non-binary performer and the 2018 incident in which a burger was thrown at them on Waterloo Bridge. Written in Alabanza's signature conversational and searching voice, the book won the Jhalak Prize in 2023.

About the Author

Travis AlabanzaGB

Travis Alabanza is a British writer, performer, and theatre-maker born in 1994 in Bristol. They studied drama at Goldsmiths and have performed and made theatre across the UK and internationally. They are known for their live show Burgerz (2018), about the 2018 incident on Waterloo Bridge in which a burger was thrown at them, which toured internationally. Read more →