cister

• cis-ter

Blend of cis (“cisgender”) +‎ sister.

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: sĭs'tə, IPA^(key): /ˈsɪs.tə/

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• (General American) enPR: sĭs'tər, IPA^(key): /ˈsɪs.tɚ/

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• Rhymes: -ɪstə(ɹ)
• Homophone: sister
• Hyphenation: cis‧ter

cister (plural cisters)

1. (LGBT, neologism) A cisgender woman, especially one that is part of a community that includes trans women.
   • 2018, Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley, Ezili's Mirrors: Imagining Black Queer Genders, unnumbered pages:

     So let the show begin, black femme cisters, unleash your pinks and let the show begin!

   • 2018, Ariadni Tzounakou, "From Woman to Woman", Fliqped Magazine, Issue #11 (2018), 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.

• Ticers, Trices, citers, criest, retics, steric, trices