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Bey Marquis - Cistem Failure Essays On Blackness And Cisgender - Paperback
Bey Marquis - Cistem Failure Essays On Blackness And Cisgender - Paperback
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Description: 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.
Title: Cistem Failure Essays On Blackness And Cisgender
Author(s): Bey Marquis
Publisher: Duke University Press
Barcode: 9781478018445
Pages: 184 Pages
Publication Date: 8/2/2022
Series: ASTERISK
Category: Ethnic Studies
Description: 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.
Title: Cistem Failure Essays On Blackness And Cisgender
Author(s): Bey Marquis
Publisher: Duke University Press
Barcode: 9781478018445
Pages: 184 Pages
Publication Date: 8/2/2022
Series: ASTERISK
Category: Ethnic Studies
