Discover 'Bachelorx': A Journey of Identity and Love
A Journey Beyond all Binaries
A 60-something nonbinary plural person abruptly leaves a 35 year marriage to go on the apps and date, bringing along all their very vocal and vulnerable personalities.
A Comic Journey into the Underworld of App Dating
Bachelorx is the latest book by award-winning queer, nonbinary author, filmmaker, and performer Skylar Lyralen Kaye (fae/they). Their work explores queer relationships and identity, gender expansiveness, and the ways people form families – both chosen and inherited.
The book follows Kaye, depicted through the protagonist Orpheus, newly single after a decades-long queer marriage, as they naively step into the challenges of contemporary online dating later in life. Orpheus experiences their inner life as made up of multiple voices, all of which are present as queer relationships unfold. The book traces attraction, desire, conflict, humour, and care as they are experienced across this plural inner world, offering a vivid and often funny portrait of queer intimacy.
At its core, Bachelorx takes an affirming stance: being gender nonconforming and multiple is not a problem to be solved. The book treats both gender and plurality as a meaningful way of being, shaped by experiences and relationships.
How It Started...
BachelorX, a Nonbinary Memoir, started when Skye dated the woman they would later call their Eurydice. But it wasn’t enough to write a dating memoir. Skye is plural, meaning they have multiple consciousnesses in one body, and to give those inner people a voice, Skye employs 18 different fonts, each font for a different personality.
The story drives through dating adventures with a commentary happening all along, as Skye’s personalities, bicker, cajole, soothe, love and find humor with each other. It’s unique, it’s badass, and it’s proud. It’s achingly vulnerable.
“It’s one of those rare books that exists in a category of its own. It’s a love story, a trauma memoir, a queer manifesto, a comedy, and a genuinely original structural experiment… portraying life through a graphic representation of plural inner voices.” Priscilla Tiemi
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What Readers Are Saying
Skye is so wildly, boldly generous with their experience — the sixty-something nonbinary sober artist hitting the dating apps for the first time, the inner committee arguing about every decision, the love story that becomes an underworld and has to be survived — and in that generosity, something strange and necessary happens. You start to recognise yourself. Corrinke Boon
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