Democratic Movement Quotes by Judith Butler

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• There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no…
• There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender... identity is performatively constituted by the very 'expressions' that are said to…
• You only trust those who are absolutely like yourself, those who have signed a pledge of allegiance to this particular identity.
• It's my view that gender is culturally formed, but it's also a domain of agency or freedom and that it is most…
• Lacanian theory must be understood as a kind of “slave morality.
• Do we need recourse to a happier state before the law in order to maintain that contemporary gender relations and the punitive…
• I'm no great fan of the phallus, and have made my own views known on this subject before, so I do not…
• The violence of language consists in its effort to capture the ineffable and, hence, to destroy it, to seize hold of that…
• Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.
• Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act… a doing rather than a being.
• Indeed it may be only by risking the incoherence of identity that connection is possible.
• Gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original; in fact, it is a kind of imitation that produces…

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