There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender... identity is performatively constituted by the very 'expressions' that are said to… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
What we need is a political and joyous alternative to the behaviorist discourse, the Christian discourse on evil or sin, and the… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
It's not my concern. It's your concern. I just keep working. I keep posing certain questions and I think there are times… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
No matter whether one feels one's gendered and sexed reality to be firmly fixed or less so, every person should have the… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Do we need recourse to a happier state before the law in order to maintain that contemporary gender relations and the punitive… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Whether one wants to be free to live out a "hard-wired" sense of sex or a more fluid sense of gender, is… — 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". There is… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
A man who reads effeminate may well be consistently heterosexual, and another one might be gay. We can't read sexuality off of… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I have also been invited to talk to psychologists and psychoanalysts and I liked that very much. Because, they are the ones… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I think we have to ask, not, what "Gender trouble" is today but where "Gender trouble" is today. — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I am much more open about categories of gender, and my feminism has been about women's safety from violence, increased literacy, decreased… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
The important thing is to think about theory in life in that way. And I think we don't have to be theorists,… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Sometimes there are ways to minimize the importance of gender in life, or to confuse gender categories so that they no longer… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I think I never expected "Gender trouble" to have any particularly revolutionary effect so whatever effects it has, I'm always surprised. — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
The United States are such a large place. And there are some states and some cities where the questions of gender or… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
If we think about sexual life for a gender life, it seems to me that we have to allow for certain kinds… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Our notions of what a human being is problematically depend on there being two coherent genders. And if someone doesn't comply with… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Some trans people thought that in claiming that gender is performative that I was saying that it is all a fiction, and… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
“The misapprehension about gender performativity is this: that gender is a choice, or that gender is a role, or that gender is… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Gender assignment is a "construction" and yet many genderqueer and trans people refuse those assignments in part or in full. That refusal… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I do know that some people believe that I see gender as a "choice" rather than as an essential and firmly fixed… — 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
