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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. “Amassing authoritarian power depends in part on a willingness of the people to believe in the power exercised,” Butler writes in ...

The Handful of Democrats Fighting Back Against the DSA Takeover Will Jefferson and Smith Reach the Tricentennial Intact? Audio By Carbonatix Judith Butler, the American gender theorist, said that the ...

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.

Judith Butler, in 1990, argued that gender is performative. That gender is a mere social construct that defines how one must ...

Two weeks ago, the University of California at Berkeley handed over the names of 160 faculty, students, and staff to the Trump administration as part of its investigation into “alleged antisemitic ...

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 ...