Indeed it may be only by risking the incoherence of identity that connection is possible. — 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
You only trust those who are absolutely like yourself, those who have signed a pledge of allegiance to this particular identity. — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
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
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
Surely binationalism is not love, but there is, we might say, a necessary and impossible attachment that makes a mockery of identity,… — 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… — 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
“[W]e must recognize that ethics requires us to risk ourselves precisely at moments of unknowingness, when what forms us diverges from what… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
“To be touched is, of course, to undergo something that comes from the outside, so I am, quite fundamentally, occasioned by that… — 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
![“[W]e must recognize that ethics requires us to risk ourselves precisely at moments of unknowingness, when what forms us diverges from what lies before us, when our willingness to become undone in relation to others constitutes our chance of becoming human. To be undone by another is a primary…” quote by Judith Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3cf/judith-butler-1374_identity_w-e-must-recognize-that-ethics-requires_2815377.jpg)
