We should all have greater freedoms to define and pursue our lives without pathologization, de-realization, harassment, threats of violence, violence, and criminalization.… — 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
We set the actors on the scene through the banal discourse of "conflict" in ways that fully deflect from the history and… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
When some people rejoin with “All Lives Matter” they misunderstand the problem, but not because their message is untrue. It is true… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Let me say one thing to clarify my position. I think we can take distance from norm but I think we are… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I think there is no one answer. It is still a struggle, there are tensions and I'm sure there are many people… — 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
One struggles always with these norms. So one doesn't construct oneself freely without respect to norm but one works with one's historical… — 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
