Judith Butler Quotes

Precarity designates that politically induced condition in which certain populations suffer from fai...

Precisely because a living being may die, it is necessary to care for that being so that it may live...

In other words, they appeal to the state for protection, but the state is precisely that from which ...

I argue that even as the war is framed in certain ways to control and heighten affect in relation to...

According to Melanie Klein, we develop moral responses in reaction to questions of survivability. My...

There is no life without the conditions of life that variably sustain life, and those conditions are...

If the immutable character of sex is contested, perhaps this construct called ‘sex’ is as culturally...

That the power regimes of heterosexism and phallogocentrism seek to augment themselves through a con...

If Lacan presumes that female homosexuality issues from a disappointed heterosexuality, as observati...

To be called a copy, to be called unreal, is thus one way in which one can be oppressed. But conside...

What is most important is to cease legislating for all lives what is liveable only for some, and sim...

Democracy does not speak in unison; its tunes are dissonant, and necessarily so. It is not a predict...

I'm no great fan of the phallus, and have made my own views known on this subject before, so I do no...

It is not as if an 'I' exists independently over here and then simply loses a 'you' over there, espe...

It's my view that gender is culturally formed, but it's also a domain of agency or freedom and that ...

We act as if that being of a man or that being of a woman is actually an internal reality or somethi...

I am much more open about categories of gender, and my feminism has been about women's safety from v...

We must be undone in order to do ourselves: we must be part of a larger social fabric of existence i...

You only trust those who are absolutely like yourself, those who have signed a pledge of allegiance ...

The violence of language consists in its effort to capture the ineffable and, hence, to destroy it, ...

The misapprehension about gender performativity is this: that gender is a choice, or that gender is ...