When we say gender is performed, we usually mean that we've taken on a role or we're acting in some way and… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
To say that gender is performative is a little different because for something to be performative means that it produces a series… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
For instance, when "Gender trouble " is translated into Japanese, it produces a problem of vocabulary and a way of thinking about… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Not all bodies are born in male or female. There is a continuum of bodies and it seems to me that trying… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
... that gender is a choice, or that gender is a role, or that gender is a construction that one puts on,… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I want to say that the way in which we understand gender actually changes the way we live gender. — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I think we have to accept a wide variety of positions on gender. Some want to be gender-free, but others want to… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Look, "Gender trouble" includes a critique of the idea that there are two ideal bodily forms, two ideal morphologies: the masculine and… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original; in fact, it is a kind of imitation that produces… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I think we won't be able to understand the operations of trans-phobia, homophobia, if we don't understand how certain kinds of links… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
"Gender trouble" is old. I mean, you know, in New York, it is old. I mean it's sweet. I mean people are… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Gender is an identity tenuously constituted in time, instituted in an exterior space through a stylized repetition of acts. — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
It seems to me that "Gender trouble" will always be important to try and open up our ideas of what gender is.… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I did not mean to argue that gender is fluid and changeable (mine certainly is not). I only meant to say that… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
My sense is that we may not need the language of innateness or genetics to understand that we are all ethically bound… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Everyone has a set of presuppositions: what gender is, what it's not. And they may not write them out or they may… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
If you have a conversation "Why is it you think masculinity is linked with heterosexuality? Or why is it you think masculinity… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
If gender is eradicated, so too is an important domain of pleasure for many people. And others have a strong sense of… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act… a doing rather than a being. — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Intersectionality has made an important contribution to social and political analysis, asking all of us to think about what assumptions of race… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
We act as if that being of a man or that being of a woman is actually an internal reality or something… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
It's my view that gender is culturally formed, but it's also a domain of agency or freedom and that it is most… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I have simply taken some of the same questions and reposed them in new ways. But, you see, I must live. Right?… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I don't think we have to have a personal relation to a life lost to understand that something terrible has taken place, especially in… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
We need a legal and political understanding of the right of the refugee, whereby no solution for one group produces a new class of… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
When we say gender is performed, we usually mean that we've taken on a role or we're acting in some way and that our… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Cameras help to minimize collateral damage, and very often, without a camera a missile cannot fire. Certainly, without a camera a drone can't function,… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I would say that I'm a feminist theorist before I'm a queer theorist or a gay and lesbian theorist. — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Very often, if you just get the question: "Well, are you a Zionist?" if you say no, it's assumed that you want the destruction… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Sexual harassment law is very important. But I think it would be a mistake if the sexual harassment law movement is the only way… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Genocide is not a legitimate option. It's not ok to decide that an entire population has no right to live in the world. No… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
“Let's face it. We're undone by each other. And if we're not, we're missing something. If this seems so clearly the case with grief,… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
The pleasurable part of public mourning can also lead to a sense of self-sanctification that justifies in advance any war effort, whether or not… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
“There is no life without the conditions of life that variably sustain life, and those conditions are pervasively social, establishing not the discrete ontology… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
“That the power regimes of heterosexism and phallogocentrism seek to augment themselves through a constant repetition of their logic, their metaphysic, and their naturalized… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
