We do things with language, produce effects with language, and we do things to language, but language is also the thing that we do. Language is a name for our doing: both “what” we do (the name for the action that we characteristically perform) and that which we effect, the act and its consequences. Judith …
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Judith Butler addresses TERFs and the use of theory against transgender people
This is a really good (and actually understandable) interview with Judith Butler in which she clarifies her positions on trans people undergoing transformation and surgery (”brave” and “there is nothing more important than for transgender people to ) the use of social construction theory against trans people (”a false, misleading, and oppressive use of the …
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You don’t have to get normal to become legitimate. Judith Butler in an interview with Regina Michalik (LOLApress) in 2001.
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