Before I meet Judith Butler, I am, for the first time since my teenage French lessons, genuinely anxious about pronouns. Gender identity has been perhaps the most vicious front in the culture wars. To ...

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 ...

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 ...

When Judith Butler published their first book, Gender Trouble, in 1990 – in which they put forth the theory of gender performativity with which they’re still associated – the academic’s hopes were ...

In late 2017, I read about an article about an academic with the startling headline, “Judith Butler discusses being burned in an effigy at Brazil protest”. It was my first introduction to the strength ...

Inflamed by the rhetoric of public figures, the "anti-gender ideology movement" has sought to nullify reproductive justice, undermine protections against sexual and gender violence, and strip trans ...

On April 8, the Vatican released the declaration Dignitas Infinita. The statement outlines “grave violations of human dignity” in the world today: poverty, war, human trafficking, violence against ...

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