cislation

cislation noun: the act or process of cislating.

Noun

cislation (countable and uncountable, plural cislations)

(transgender and social sciences) The act or process of cislating.
- What is called the cislation of transness (the perpetuation of cisnormativity in descriptions of trans people) in higher education and RSS research is pervasive (Sumerau, 2017; Sumerau, Cragun, & Mathers, 2016). Historically and contemporarily, cis people have controlled the narrative on trans/NB...2019, Kate Curley, Debunking the false dichotomy: Developing and applying trans quantcrit at the intersection of trans/non-binary identities and religious, secular, and spiritual engagement in...
- 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...2019 June 4, T.J. Jourian and Z Nicolazzo, "Not Another Gender Binary: A Call For Complexity Over Cis-Readability: Why a nonbinary/binary trans dichotomy is counterproductive to gender liberation"...

This is yet another practice of cislation, or the translating of seemingly illegible (i.e., not understandable) genders for cis recognition.2019 June 4, T.J. Jourian and Z Nicolazzo, "Not Another Gender Binary: A Call For Complexity Over Cis-Readability: Why a nonbinary/binary...
[…] our and our kin’s lives, realities, bodies, and voices, thereby interrupting their cislation.2020, Z Nicolazzo, TJ Jourian, “'I'm looking for people who want to do disruption work': Trans* academics and power discourses in academic...

plural	cislations

From replacing the trans- part of translation with cis-; coined by T.J. Jourian.

What does cislation mean?: Cislation means the act or process of cislating.
How do you use cislation in a sentence?: This is yet another practice of cislation, or the translating of seemingly illegible (i.e., not understandable) genders for cis recognition.
What part of speech is cislation?: Cislation is a noun.
What is the plural of cislation?: The plural of cislation is cislations.

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