The Nation

Reading Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble in the Age of Ron DeSantis

More than 30 years after it was published, the seminal queer theory text still has some things to say. The author and her twin sister as children, not long after Gender Trouble was published. Spring ...
America Magazine

Review: Judith Butler and the seismic shift in how we understand gender

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 ...
The Globe and Mail

Judith Butler revisits gender in new book examining anger, outcry and dangerous rhetoric

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 ...
The Conversation

The Vatican says gender theory threatens human dignity – but Judith Butler believes the ‘threat’ is social change

Louise Richardson-Self receives funding from the Australian Research Council for two projects: DE190100719: Hate Speech Against Women Online: Concepts and Countermeasures; and DP200100395: Religious ...
Mena FN

Gender Is Not Scary, Argues Judith Butler. But Right Now, It Represents The Threat Of Social Change

(MENAFN- The Conversation) Gender has assumed terrifying, phantasmagorical proportions for a diverse range of groups today. It has become an“overdetermined” concept,“absorbing wildly different ideas ...
The New Yorker

Judith Butler on the Global Backlash to L.G.B.T.Q. Rights

Sign up to receive our twice-weekly News & Politics newsletter. Long before gender theory became a principal target of the right, it existed principally in academic ...