Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. According to Britannica, Butler’s Gender Trouble was “one of the founding texts of queer theory,” and all of their work continues ...

The philosopher popularized new ideas about gender—and has been burned in effigy for it. They talk with David Remnick about “Who’s Afraid of Gender?,” their new book on the backlash. The staff writer ...

Renowned queer feminist theorist Judith Butler has issued a warning to Americans outraged by Donald Trump to stop missing the forest for the trees. In an op-ed for The Guardian, Butler explained that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Amassing authoritarian power depends in part on a willingness of the people to believe in the power exercised,” Butler writes in ...

A pedestrian crossing decorated with the pattern of the transgender flag on a street in London April 10, 2024. (OSV News photo/Isabel Infantes, Reuters) There is no question that a seismic shift in ...

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It is a minor tragedy in the life of a book reviewer when she realizes that agreeing with a book’s conclusions (and even revering its author) is not always sufficient to make the book much good.

It’s hard to dislike Judith Butler. If you’ve ever taken a Gender Studies class, you’ve probably read their work at one point or another. The term “gender performativity” is practically ubiquitous in ...

The gender theorist Judith Butler and I have been engaged in an arm’s-length dialogue for several years. I have criticized Butler’s ideology in a long essay on Drag Queen Story Hour, and Butler, in ...

Judith Butler is so iconic that just the invocation of their name — or their first book, 1990's theory classic Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity — can work as a punchline in the ...

Judith Butler speaks about Academic Freedom and Extra-Mural speech at Hutchins Hall Thursday afternoon. Ellie Vice/Daily. Buy this photo. Butler, most famous for their 1990 book, “Gender Trouble: ...

American Jewish philosopher Judith Butler recently insisted that the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas should not be dubbed as “terrorism,” but rather “armed resistance.” This articulation, argued the public ...