Cistem Failure
Essays on Blackness and Cisgender
1st Edition
Published on 1. July 2022
184 pages
978-1-4780-2303-6 (ISBN)
Description
Marquis Bey meditates on the antagonistic relationship between blackness and cisgender, showing that as a category, cisgender cannot capture how people depart from gender alignment and its coding as white.
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Marquis Bey is Assistant Professor of African American Studies and English at Northwestern University and author of several books, most recently Black Trans Feminism, also published by Duke University Press.
Content
Preface. Cistem Failure ix
Acknowledgments xvii
Back in the Day 1
Heart of Cisness 21
How Ya Mama'n'em? 47
Notes on (Trans)Gender 61
Blowing Up Narnia 87
RE: [No Subject] 105
The Coalition of Gender Abolition 129
Notes 147
Bibliography 153
Index 161
Acknowledgments xvii
Back in the Day 1
Heart of Cisness 21
How Ya Mama'n'em? 47
Notes on (Trans)Gender 61
Blowing Up Narnia 87
RE: [No Subject] 105
The Coalition of Gender Abolition 129
Notes 147
Bibliography 153
Index 161
