Cisgender

Perry Zurn is Provost Associate Professor of Philosophy at American University. He is the author of How We Make Each Other: Trans Life at the Edge of the University, published by Duke University Press, as well as Curiosity and Power: The Politics of Inquiry and the co-author of Curious Minds: The Power of Connection.

• Acknowledgments viiDis/Orienting 11. “Cis Isn't a Slur. It’s Latin!” 172. A Faerie Punk Counterhistory of Cis 333. Cis Soup: An Early Stew of Meanings 514. Cis Privilege Knapsacks 695. Cis Goes Mainstream—At Some Cost 876. Cisnormativity and Coloniality 1057. On the Sexedness and Whiteness of Cisness 1258. Cripping Cis: What Disability Demands 1439. Why Cis Works 16110. When Cis Doesn’t Work 177Coda 195Glossary of Cis Terms 205Notes 213Bibliography 241Index

"Perry Zurn’s 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