Marquis Bey is professor of Black Studies and Gender & Sexuality Studies at Northwestern University. Their work focuses on trans and nonbinary studies, black feminist theory, abolition, and critical theory. They are the author of numerous articles and books, most notably Black Trans Feminism (Duke University Press, 2022) and Nonbinary Life: An Autotheory (Bloomsbury, 2026).
The purpose of this brief meditation, which is acting as a bit of a seed text, as it were, of my book Nonbinary Life: An Autotheory (Bloomsbury, forthcoming), is quite singular: to offer the provocation that “nonbinary” is not a … Continue reading “No Need for Gender: A Brief Meditation on Nonbinary Life“
Marquis Bey interviews Alexis Pauline Gumbs, author of the poetry collection Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity. Read an excerpt from book here. Marquis Bey: So I want to begin, if I may, expressing to you how utterly thankful I … Continue reading “A Spillage of the Fugitive Variety”
