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cishet

adj
/ˈsɪs.hɛt/UK

Etymology

From cis + het.

  1. inherited from hǣtte
  2. inherited from hette
  3. compounded as cishet — “cis + het”

Definitions

  1. Cisgender and heterosexual.

    • Even in death, the way we are spoken about by the mainstream cishet world is traumatizing and violent. Even in death, trans women of color cannot escape the trauma of colonialism and genocide.
    • […] it reinforces the problematic notion that 'true' feminism belongs to cishet white abled feminists; […]

  2. A cisgender and heterosexual person.

    • Last weekend I was on Facebook taking part in a conversation about dating sites when someone called me a cishet, in a sneering tone.
    • I don't fuck with cishets / I look so good in fishnets

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for cishet. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA