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Judith Butler Quotes

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“The quickness of social media allows for forms of vitriol that do not exactly support thoughtful debate. We need to cherish the longer forms.”
— Judith Butler, Judith Butler on the culture wars, JK Rowling and living in “anti-intellectual times”
Tagged: Digitised Diseases, Social Media
“Democracy requires a good challenge, and it does not always arrive in soft tones.”
— Judith Butler, Judith Butler on the culture wars, JK Rowling and living in “anti-intellectual times”
Tagged: Democracy
“It assumes that the penis is the threat, or that any person who has a penis who identifies as a woman is engaging in a base, deceitful, and harmful form of disguise. This is a rich fantasy, and one that comes from powerful fears, but it does not describe a social reality.”
— Judith Butler, Judith Butler on the culture wars, JK Rowling and living in “anti-intellectual times”
“Gender is the mechanism by which notions of masculine and feminine are produced and naturalized, but gender might very well be the apparatus by which such terms are deconstructed and denaturalized. Indeed, it may be that the very apparatus that seeks to install the norm also works to undermine that installation, that the installation is, as it were, definitionally incomplete.”
— Judith Butler, Undoing Gender
Tagged: gender, Structure as a Means of Deconstruction
“By gender freedom, I do not mean we all get to choose our gender. Rather, we get to make a political claim to live freely and without fear of discrimination and violence against the genders that we are. Many people who were assigned “female” at birth never felt at home with that assignment, and those people (including me) tell all of us something important about the constraints of traditional gender norms for many who fall outside its terms.”
— Judith Butler, Judith Butler on the culture wars, JK Rowling and living in “anti-intellectual times”
Tagged: Defining Gender
“But what if the individual – and individualism – is part of the problem? It makes a difference to understand ourselves as living in a world in which we are fundamentally dependent on others, on institutions, on the Earth, and to see that this life depends on a sustaining organisation for various forms of life. If no one escapes that interdependency, then we are equal in a different sense. We are equally dependent, that is, equally social and ecological, and that means we cease to understand ourselves only as demarcated individuals. If trans-exclusionary radical feminists understood themselves as sharing a world with trans people, in a common struggle for equality, freedom from violence, and for social recognition, there would be no more trans-exclusionary radical feminists. But feminism would surely survive as a coalitional practice and vision of solidarity.”
— Judith Butler, Judith Butler on the culture wars, JK Rowling and living in “anti-intellectual times”
Tagged: All One Body, Cosmic Unity
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