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English
Etymology
Blend of cis (“cisgender”) + sister.
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Noun
cister (plural cisters)
- (LGBT, neologism) A cisgender woman, especially one that is part of a community that includes trans women.
Support all your sisters, not just your cisters!
2018, Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley, Ezili's Mirrors: Imagining Black Queer Genders, unnumbered page:So let the show begin, black femme cisters, unleash your pinks and let the show begin!
2018, Ariadni Tzounakou, “From Woman to Woman”, in Fliqped Magazine, number 11, page 23:I feel like sometimes, in our need to prove our worth we forget to tell our "cisters" how much they matter to us.
2021, Zillah Eisenstein, Abolitionist Socialist Feminism: Radicalizing the Next Revolution, page 21:As I write, I see and hear the many sister (not cister) friends and colleagues and comrades who have been a part of this conversation.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:cister.
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