Cistem Failure: Essays on Blackness and Cisgender

by Marquis Bey

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478018445
• ISBN13: 9781478018445
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.4"