{"product_id":"cistem-failure-1","title":"Cistem Failure","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.","brand":"Marquis Bey","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43573232435382,"sku":"9781478015802","price":82.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9781478015802_858273b5-cd7b-4729-b0e0-ded8b29032fa.jpg?v=1725889362","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/cistem-failure-1","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}