{"product_id":"cistem-failure-9781478018445","title":"Cistem Failure","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I found \u003ci\u003eCistem Failure\u003c\/i\u003e by Marquis Bey really exciting. In it, Bey wonders whether and how blackness is at odds with cisgender identity. I love when a book articulates things I haven’t been able to put into words. It is as if something that had been squirming inside me settles.\" -- Chantal V. Johnson * The Millions *\u003cbr\u003e\"In 2019, Bey’s debut collection \u003ci\u003eThem Goon Rules\u003c\/i\u003e changed me as a scholar, a feminist, an accomplice and a person; \u003ci\u003eBlack Trans Feminism\u003c\/i\u003e is just as imperative. I forced myself to decide between this one and Bey’s \u003ci\u003eCistem Failur\u003c\/i\u003ee, which was also released this year. Well, hell, just read ‘em both.\" -- Karla J. Strand * Ms. Magazine *\u003cbr\u003e“Marquis and their work provide much room for fruitful engagement with critical animal studies. . . . Marquis’s form is highly artistic and this keeps their essays begging to be acknowledged and revisited, as any good piece of art should. Bey’s writing is really an experience. They write otherwise as they encourage the reader to imagine otherwise, other ways of being.” -- Nathan Poirier * Journal for Critical Animal Studies *\u003cbr\u003e“Written with tongue-in-cheek humour and deep vulnerability, \u003ci\u003eCistem Failure\u003c\/i\u003e speaks to scholar-activists across disciplines who are invested in livability and collective liberation. . . . Although Bey speaks only to their particular experience, they position themself as potential kin to anyone whose life does not map neatly onto the cistrans binary or who is committed to the project of gender abolition.” -- Derek P. Siegel * Ethnic and Racial Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface. Cistem Failure  ix\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments  xvii\u003cbr\u003e Back in the Day  1\u003cbr\u003e Heart of Cisness  21\u003cbr\u003e How Ya Mama’n’em?  47\u003cbr\u003e Notes on (Trans)Gender  61\u003cbr\u003e Blowing Up Narnia  87\u003cbr\u003e RE: [No Subject]  105\u003cbr\u003e The Coalition of Gender Abolition  129\u003cbr\u003e Notes  147\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  153\u003cbr\u003e Index  161","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409008468311,"sku":"9781478018445","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478018445.jpg?v=1730505071","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/cistem-failure-9781478018445","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}