On ‘Cistem Failure’ by Marquis Bey

Book #1 in my 2023 Trans Rights Readathon week

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For the #TransRightsReadathon, I want to tell you about Marquis Bey’s 2022 book Cistem Failure: Essays on Blackness and Cisgender.

What Is Cis? What Is Trans?

On one definition, cisgender simply means not transgender. But as with all words, inevitably the…