Cislation

Quick meaning: Cislation is a noun meaning (transgender and social sciences) The act or process of cislating.

Meaning

(transgender and social sciences) The act or process of cislating.

Example Sentences

Binary and non-binary more often function as cislations (i.e., their use is often aimed at making trans positionalities more understandable to cisgender people) than as a readable trans dichotomy (see Jourian & Nicolazzo, 2019).

[…] our and our kin’s lives, realities, bodies, and voices, thereby interrupting their cislation. Cislation refers to an analytical practice of presenting trans perspectives in such a way as to make them legible to a dominantly and presumably nontrans readership, but that may in fact […]

Rather than push for more fluid, dynamic, and intersectional notions of gender expansiveness, the “binary v. nonbinary trans people” fallacy keeps our most simplified and palatable narratives front and center. This is yet another practice of cislation, or the translating of seemingly illegible (i.e., not understandable) genders for cis recognition.

Word Forms

• cislations

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