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. According to Britannica, Butler’s Gender Trouble was “one of the founding texts of queer theory,” and all of their work continues ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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.

Nonbinary queer theorist Judith Butler warned last Friday that the world is “witnessing the restoration of patriarchy, nationalism, racism, and capitalist individualism” as well as right-wing ...

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 ...

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 ...

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: ...