{"product_id":"cistem-failure-essays-on-blackness-and-cisgender-9781478018445","title":"Cistem Failure: Essays on Blackness and Cisgender","description":"In \u003ci\u003eCistem Failure\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Powerpuff Girls\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMarquis Bey is Assistant Professor of African American Studies and English at Northwestern University and author of several books, most recently \u003ci\u003eBlack Trans Feminism\u003c\/i\u003e, also published by Duke University Press.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50679002169618,"sku":"9781478018445","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7cf6ce97-acf4-468e-b83e-99e955fc9541.jpg?v=1733899462","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/cistem-failure-essays-on-blackness-and-cisgender-9781478018445","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}