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In Cistem Failure Marquis Bey meditates on the antagonistic relationship between blackness and cisgender. Bey asks, What does it mean to have a gender that “matches” one’s sex---that is, to be cisgender---when decades of feminist theory have destroyed the belief that there is some natural way to be a sex? Moving from the The Powerpuff Girls to the greeting “How ya mama’n’em?” to their own gender identity, Bey finds that cisgender is too flat as a category to hold the myriad ways that people who may or may not have undergone gender-affirmative interventions depart from gender alignment. At the same time, blackness, they contend, strikes at the heart of cisgender’s invariable coding as white: just as transness names a non-cis space, blackness implies a non-cis space. By showing how blackness opens up a way to subvert the hegemonic power of the gender binary, Bey makes a case for an antiracist gender abolition project that rejects cisgender as a regulatory apparatus.
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Gender identity, Philosophy, Gender expression, African Americans, Cisgender people, Identité sexuelle, Philosophie, Expression de l'identité sexuelle, Noirs américains, Cisgenres, African American, SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ Studies / Transgender Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black StudiesShowing 2 featured editions. View all 2 editions?
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Cistem Failure: Essays on Blackness and Cisgender
2022, Duke University Press
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Cistem Failure: Essays on Blackness and Cisgender
2021, Duke University Press, Duke University Press Books
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