Cistem Failure Essays on Blackness and Cisgender by Marquis Bey (Paperback Book)

Duke University Press

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 \u201Cmatches\u201D one\u2019s 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 \u201CHow ya mama\u2019n\u2019em?\u201D 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\u2019s invariable coding as white: just as transness names a non-cis space, blackness implies a non-cis space. By showing how blackness\n\nCistem Failure\nEssays on Blackness and Cisgender\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery using Royal Ma;