Travis and Miriam discuss what their life might have looked like if they had finished university instead of walking out of their exams. Along the way, the two talk about the cultural obsession with certainty, the importance of geography when forming communities and the sex appeal of really bad shoes.

Travis Alabanza is an award-winning writer, performer and theatre maker. After being the youngest recipient of the Artist-in-Residency programme at Tate Galleries, their debut show Burgerz toured internationally to sold-out performances in the Southbank Centre, in Brazil, and Berlin, and won the Edinburgh Fringe Total Theatre Award. Their writing has appeared in the Guardian, Vice, gal-dem and BBC Online, and they previously had a fortnightly column in the Metro. They have been published in numerous anthologies, including Black and Gay In the UK. Their work surrounding gender, trans identity and race has garnered international recognition, and they have given talks at universities including Oxford, Harvard, Bristol and more. Their new book, None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary, is published this August by Canongate.

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