More than 30 years after it was published, the seminal queer theory text still has some things to say. The author and her twin sister as children, not long after Gender Trouble was published. Spring ...

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 ...

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 ...

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This week, Judith Butler joins panelists Roy Blount, Jr., Maz Jobrani, and Faith Salie to talk about gender, performativity, and their dream of... Judith Butler talks gender, performativity, and ...

Sign up to receive our twice-weekly News & Politics newsletter. Long before gender theory became a principal target of the right, it existed principally in academic ...

It’s been 35 years since the publication of Judith Butler’s book Gender Trouble, which argued that gender is performative (that is, it’s “real only to the extent that it’s performed”). Recently, the ...

Gender studies pioneer Butler (Gender Trouble) argues in this trenchant polemic that in recent years the “phantasm of gender” has been “scapegoated” by “anti-gender” ideologues who seek to stoke fears ...

Today we have a special show for fund drive co hosted by feminist Queer activists Kate Raphael and Rae Abileah, who will talk to Jewish Feminist Queer author, scholar and activist Judith Butler about ...

Judith Butler, born on Feb. 24, 1956, is an American feminist, queer philosopher and gender studies scholar known for their many books, as well as their feminist and queer theories. Even if you’re not ...