Cistem FailureIn Cistem Failure Marquis Bey meditates on the antagonistic relationship between blackness and cisgender. Bey asks, What does it mean to have a gender that matches ones sex that is, to be cisgender when decades of feminist theory have destroyed the belief that there is some natural way to be a sex? Moving from the The Powerpuff Girls to the greeting How ya mamanem? to their own gender identity, Bey finds that cisgender is too flat as a category to