Cisgender

Acknowledgments vii

Dis/Orienting 1

1. "Cis Isnt a Slur. Its Latin!" 17

2. A Faerie Punk Counterhistory of Cis 33

3. Cis Soup: An Early Stew of Meanings 51

4. Cis Privilege Knapsacks 69

5. Cis Goes Mainstream-At Some Cost 87

6. Cisnormativity and Coloniality 105

7. On the Sexedness and Whiteness of Cisness 125

8. Cripping Cis: What Disability Demands 143

9. Why Cis Works 161

10. When Cis Doesnt Work 177

Coda 195

Glossary of Cis Terms 205

Notes 213

Bibliography 241

Index 267

"This is the definitive book on the genealogies, uses, and panics that inform and animate the circulation of the term cis-. With engrossing prose and an expansive archive, Cisgender offers readers the opportunity to reflect on what was, what is, and what could have been. A must-read for anyone interested in gender and politics!"-C. Riley Snorton, co-author of A Black Queer History of the United States



"Perry Zurns Cisgender gives voice to that important moment in a minority discourse where the discourse turns back to critique the dominant frame that minoritizes it. But it does far more than that - it deconstructs the cis/trans binary, in a welcome way, to open new conceptual worlds within and between both terms. May it launch many productive conversations." -Susan Stryker, author of, Transgender History