cister
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Blend of cis (“cisgender”) + sister.
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: sĭs'tə, IPA(key): /ˈsɪs.tə/
Audio (UK) (file) - (General American) enPR: sĭs'tər, IPA(key): /ˈsɪs.tɚ/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɪstə(ɹ)
- Homophone: sister
- Hyphenation: cis‧ter
Noun edit
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[1], 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.