Nobody is happy with the state of gender and the family right now, and you can tell a lot about a person’s politics by where they turn for solutions. Do they look to a mythical past when men were men, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Today on KPFA Radio’s Women’s Magazine Kate Raphael and Rae Abileah who will talk to Jewish Feminist Queer author, scholar and activist Judith Butler about two topics she has become famous for ...

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 ...