It is true that non-governmental organisations working within strong human rights frameworks are now confounded by securitarian forms of logic and power… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
The problem with Antigone is that she stood up to the despot Creon, but in such a way that she ended up… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Photographs can be forms of recruitment, ways of bringing the viewer into the military, as it were. In this way, they prepare… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Until we learn that other lives are equally grievable and have an equal demand on us to be grieved - especially the… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Surgical intervention can be precisely what a trans person needs - it is also not always what a trans person needs. Either… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I don't think there's any way that war can have a place in peace. I think that peace is the active and… — 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
We have to find a way of understanding how one category of sex can be "assigned" from both and another sense of… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Perhaps we have to remember that there are forms of outrage that do not lead to any sort of mobilization, and there… — 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
In the US the problem has been, for instance, that Nazis have rights of free expression, right? But other kinds of racist… — 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
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 wonder about economic sanctions, though, since that is a way that states engage in boycotts against one another. — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Life has to be protected. It is precarious. I would even go so far as to say that precarious life is, in… — 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
