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SUMMARY:Non-binary lives
LOCATION:London School of Economics: In-person and online public event (Ho
 ng Kong Theatre\, Clement House)
DESCRIPTION:Monday 16 November 2026 6.30pm - 8pmSpeakersProfessor Marquis 
 BeyDr SM RodríguezSandip RoyChairDr Rohit K DasguptaLSE Gender is delight
 ed to welcome influential scholar Marquis Bey and distinguished journalist
  Sandip Roy\, who will offer international perspectives on nonbinary lived
  experiences through their respective new books Nonbinary Life: An Autothe
 ory and Chapal Rani\, the Last Queen of Bengal.Professor Bey’s Nonbinary
  Life blends memoir and theory to provide a philosophical meditation on wh
 at it means to live beyond the binary. Roy’s Chapal Rani is a biography 
 of Bhaduri\, Bengal's last 'female impersonator' from the jatra tradition.
  In conversation with SM Rodriguez\, the authors discuss the importance of
  bridging creativity and interdisciplinarity to address important question
 s of gender expansive histories and futures.Meet our speakers and chairMar
 quis Bey is Professor of Black Studies\, Gender and Sexuality Studies at N
 orthwestern University. Bey's work\, broadly speaking\, concerns Black Fem
 inist Theorizing\, Transgender and Nonbinary Studies\, Critical Theory\, a
 nd abolition. They are currently at work on a scholarly essay collection o
 n "jailbreaking" gender and race tentatively titled Rogue Cinders: Jailbre
 aking Gender\, Jailbreaking Race.Sandip Roy is a writer\, columnist and po
 dcaster currently living in Kolkata. He is a columnist for Mint Lounge\, t
 he Hindu and the host of the Sandip Roy Show on Indian Express. His work h
 as appeared in publications like the New York Times\, BBC\, the San Franci
 sco Chronicle\, NPR\, the Times of India\, Firstpost\, Huffington Post\, C
 onde Nast Traveller and other publications. For more than a decade\, Roy w
 as editor of Trikone\, the world’s oldest magazine on LGBTQ+ South Asian
  issues.SM Rodriguez is Associate Professor of Gender\, Rights and Human R
 ights. Their research investigates the globalisation of abolitionist femin
 ist practice and advances conversation on racialisation\, criminalisation\
 , ableism\, and the imposition of gendered and sexual control on people of
  African descent.Rohit K Dasgupta is Associate Professor of Gender and Sex
 uality at the Department of Gender Studies at LSE and co-author of Desi Qu
 eers: LGBTQ+ South Asians and Cultural Belonging in Britain (Hurst/OUP\, 2
 025). He also edits two book series: Ethnographic Innovations\, South Asia
 n Perspectives (with Niharika Banerjea & Paul Boyce) for Routledge and Sou
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