On ‘Cistem Failure’ by Marquis Bey
Book #1 in my 2023 Trans Rights Readathon week
8 min readMar 21, 2023
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…
