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*** The contributors to Feminism against Cisness showcase the future of feminist historical, theoretical, and political thought freed from the conceptual strictures of cisness: the fallacy that assigned sex determines sexed experience. The essays demonstrate that this fallacy hinges on the enforcement of white and bourgeois standards of gender comportment that naturalize brutalizing race and class hierarchies. It is, therefore, no accident that the social processes making cisness compulsory are also implicated in antiblackness, misogyny, indigenous erasure, xenophobia, and bourgeois antipathy for working-class life. Working from trans historical archives and materialist trans feminist theories, this volume demonstrates the violent work that cis ideology has done and thinks toward a future for feminism beyond its counter-revolutionary pull. Contributors: Cameron Awkward-Rich, Marquis Bey, Kay Gabriel, Jules Gill-Peterson, Emma Heaney, Margaux L. Kristjansson, Greta LaFleur, Grace Lavery, Durba Mitra, Beans Velocci, Joanna Wuest. *** *** contents *** *** 1 Introduction. Sexual Difference without Cisness by emma heaney *** i. trans politics *** On Trans Use of the Many Sojourner Truths by cameron awkward-rich *** 1970s Trans Feminism as Decolonial Praxis by margaux l. kristjansson and emma heaney *** ii. trans history *** Trans Feminine Histories, Piece by Piece, or, Vernacular Print and the Histories of Gender by greta lafleur *** Denaturing Cisness, or, Toward Trans History as Method by beans velocci *** iii. trans theory *** Two Senses of Gender Abolition: Gender as Accumulation Strategy by kay gabriel *** Faceless: Nonconfessions of a Gender by marquis bey *** iv. anti-trans politics *** Assuaging the Anxious Matriarch: Social Conservatives, Radical Feminists, and Dark Money against Trans Rights by joanna wuest *** Caring for Trans Kids, Transnationally, or, Against “Gender-Critical” Moms by jules gill-peterson *** Generic Deductiveness: Reasoning as Mood in the Stoner Neo-Noir by grace lavery *** Afterword. Toward a Feminism for the Living by durba mi tra *** |