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... The introduction proposes that each chapter in this volume addresses the simultaneity of cisness as a bifurcating and hierarchizing ideology that is fundamental to racial, colonial, and class formation. It offers a theory of sexual difference without cisness to systematize the theoretical...

... reproduces a cis/trans binary, where most people’s gender identity or social role naturally mapped onto their sexed body. This renders invisible how all sex and gender—including cisgender—fail to fit into normative taxonomies. Cisness was constructed as arguments about racialized and classed sexual...

... that erasing or undermining the claims of trans women to womanhood has been a prerogative of traditional historical methods, but that some scholarship nonetheless offers tools to undo assumptions of cisness. trans history trans feminism embodiment eighteenth-century studies To counter arguments...

... The afterword addresses a key question that animates this project: how do we write the lifeworlds of trans people who are denied basic access to life at every turn? Abolishing cisness is an ongoing project that refuses the endless demands placed on trans people to be both the crisis and site...

... that is structured by enslavement, genocide, and bureaucratic and carceral enforcement of cisness. anticolonial feminism trans history 1970s feminism trans studies ...

... or undermining the claims of trans women to womanhood has been a prerogative of traditional historical methods, but that some scholarship nonetheless offers tools to undo assumptions of cisness. trans history trans feminism embodiment eighteenth-century studies ...

... to public space, delimiting trans struggle to the promise of inclusion in state protection is revealed to be an effort to conscript trans people into the reproduction of the settler nation that is structured by enslavement, genocide, and bureaucratic and carceral enforcement of cisness. anticolonial...