This week, Judith Butler joins panelists Roy Blount, Jr., Maz Jobrani, and Faith Salie to talk about gender, performativity, and their dream of... Judith Butler talks gender, performativity, and ...
It would be difficult to overstate the importance of the American philosopher and gender theorist Judith Butler, both for intellectuals and for queer communities. There are scholarly books, university ...
When Judith Butler published their first book, Gender Trouble, in 1990 – in which they put forth the theory of gender performativity with which they’re still associated – the academic’s hopes were ...
A pedestrian crossing decorated with the pattern of the transgender flag on a street in London April 10, 2024. (OSV News photo/Isabel Infantes, Reuters) There is no question that a seismic shift in ...
A powerful quote by Judith Butler reveals how reading immerses us in new worlds. We lose ourselves in books, only to return ...
Hear people talking about being genderqueer, gender fluidity, gender-non-conforming? They're harking back to this feminist author's seminal work. If you wanted to choose a celebrity avatar for ...
Judith Butler gave the 2025 Ian Watt lecture, an event held by the Center for the Study of the Novel, on Tuesday evening. As a professor of comparative literature at the University of California, ...