This talk focuses on how nonbinary, as an analytic, becomes a portal for rethinking dominant conceptions of temporality, territory, and form within and across social difference. Beginning with literary and media depictions of the Green Swamp and Honey Island Swamp monsters—swamp tales that bring the 18^th and 19^th century into the contemporary moment—this talk highlights the monstrosity of fugitivity. The Green Swamp monster began as a so-called wild man who evaded police capture in the central Florida swamps in the 1970s. The Honey Island Swamp monster, “spotted” in 1963 in marshland surrounding New Orleans, has no apparent referent but goes by many names, including the Rogarou, the Jetiche, and in Cajun French, le Bete Noire, or the Black Beast. This talk concludes with a meditation on Juliana Curi’s 2022 documentary, Uyra: The Rising Forest, to pose questions about how abolition and decolonial praxes produce alternative frameworks for reading matters of gender and the environment among Black and Indigenous queer, trans and nonbinary artists and activists.