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Intimate confessionals on contemporary masculinity and neurodivergence from a non-binary perspective
In this divisive moment in the history of gender politics, Alex Manley navigates life as a neurodivergent non-binary person and explores their dislocations from the norm.
Post-Man delves into the ways in which Manley has always felt apart, alone, and othered—how they always felt there was something wrong with them. In adulthood they came to recognize that in addition to suffering from depression, anxiety, ADHD, and possibly more, they understood themselves as existing outside the neat binary of gender that modern society imposes on us.
With this understanding of themself, Manley takes readers through the stultifying machismo of hockey culture, the improbable job of working for a men's website, the strange unpleasantness of going bald as a non-binary person, and more. Heart-wrenching and profound, Post-Man is a book that will make you reconsider your own perceptions of masculinity and manhood.
"Post-Man is a work of striking honesty and irresistible curiosity. Page after page, Manley's analysis of gender dynamics balances forensic attention with tactile sensitivity. A thrilling detective story of—and a beautiful homecoming to—the self."
—Tajja Isen, author of Some of My Best Friends
"Post-Man is an unapologetic jaywalk through ideas so potent, they bleed into one another: the tenderness of becoming, the unlit edges of desire, chance encounters that change us forever, and being misunderstood through it all. In these razor-tipped essays, Alex Manley is both vulnerable and unrelentingly curious, a perpetual work-in-progress. You can't read this book and not feel something, everything."
—Daniel Allen Cox, author of I Felt the End Before It Came
"In these essays—steeped in internet lore and shimmering with a poet's sensibility—Alex Manley explores crushes, late-stage capitalism, and the shifting, searching, febrile landscape of gender. Throughout, Manley’s prose is unwaveringly honest; Post-Man is an ode to language as its own way of figuring things out."
—Larissa Pham, author of Pop Song: Adventures in Art and Intimacy
Alex Manley (they/them) is a non-binary writer, editor, translator and poet from and living in Montreal/Tiohtià:ke. They are the author of We Are All Just Animals & Plants (Metatron Press) and The New Masculinity (ECW Press), as well as the English-language translator of Daphné B.'s Made-Up (Coach House Books).