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 ...

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 ...

Today on KPFA Radio’s Women’s Magazine Kate Raphael and Rae Abileah who will talk to Jewish Feminist Queer author, scholar and activist Judith Butler about two topics she has become famous for ...

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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Judith Butler speaks about Academic Freedom and Extra-Mural speech at Hutchins Hall Thursday afternoon. Ellie Vice/Daily. Buy this photo. The University Insider is The Daily’s first faculty and ...

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.

This week's show was recorded at the Studebaker Theater in Chicago, with host Peter Sagal, guest judge and scorekeeper Helen Hong, Not My Job guest Judith Butler and panelists Maz Jobrani, Faith Salie ...

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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 ...

Gender has assumed terrifying, phantasmagorical proportions for a diverse range of groups today. It has become an “overdetermined” concept, “absorbing wildly different ideas of what threatens the ...