It’s been 35 years since the publication of Judith Butler’s book Gender Trouble, which argued that gender is performative (that is, it’s “real only to the extent that it’s performed”). Recently, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. According to Britannica, Butler’s Gender Trouble was “one of the founding texts of queer theory,” and all of their work continues ...

Nonbinary queer theorist Judith Butler warned last Friday that the world is “witnessing the restoration of patriarchy, nationalism, racism, and capitalist individualism” as well as right-wing ...

Renowned queer feminist theorist Judith Butler has issued a warning to Americans outraged by Donald Trump to stop missing the forest for the trees. In an op-ed for The Guardian, Butler explained that ...

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 ...

Judith Butler, a professor of comparative literature at the University of California, Berkeley, passed along a kindhearted New Year’s greeting to readers of the Hankyoreh. “I would counsel [readers] ...

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 ...

The gender theorist Judith Butler and I have been engaged in an arm’s-length dialogue for several years. I have criticized Butler’s ideology in a long essay on Drag Queen Story Hour, and Butler, in ...

This is viewer supported news. Please do your part today. Watch Part 2 of our interview with philosopher Judith Butler, one of dozens of Jewish American writers and artists who signed an open letter ...

The 160 members of the university notified that their names were forwarded to the DOE’s Office for Civil Rights were not informed of any specific allegations against them. Judith Butler in ...

American Jewish philosopher Judith Butler recently insisted that the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas should not be dubbed as “terrorism,” but rather “armed resistance.” This articulation, argued the public ...

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