Celebrate the New York release of None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary with award-winning writer, performer, and theater maker Travis Alabanza. Alabanza is joined in conversation by Alok Vaid-Menon, an internationally acclaimed author, poet, and comedian who wrote the foreword for None of the Above. The program culminates with a book signing with Alabanza.
Masks are required, regardless of vaccination status.
About the book:
In None of the Above, Travis Alabanza explores the concept of gender and their place in a world that rigidly and aggressively enforces the gender binary. Alabanza shares seven phrases that have been directed at them throughout their life—some deceptively innocuous, some deliberately loaded or violent, some celebratory. These phrases act as a lens through which they explore attitudes and misconceptions about gender, illuminating broader issues within a culture that insists on gender as a fixed identity. None of the Above explicates how these rigid ideas of gender are enforced by people—on others, but also on themselves.
Drawing from their experiences as a racialized queer person, Alabanza deftly interrogates our current frameworks around identity with nuance, openness, and humor. The result is a meditation on doubt and language that turns a mirror back on society, and on ourselves. Featuring a foreword by Alok Vaid-Menon, None of the Above questions what we think we know—and shares new ways that we might live.