It would be difficult to overstate the importance of the American philosopher and gender theorist Judith Butler, both for intellectuals and for queer communities. There are scholarly books, university ...

In January, the American philosopher Judith Butler and the South African artist William Kentridge took part in a public conversation in Paris about atrocity and its representations. Before an audience ...

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 ...

Gender has assumed terrifying, phantasmagorical proportions for a diverse range of groups today. It has become an “overdetermined” concept, “absorbing wildly different ideas of what threatens the ...

There was a time when outlandish theories about gender were confined to the fringes of social-science faculties. Now such notions—and particularly the idea that sex is mutable—are debated everywhere, ...

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.

The feminist, queer scholar knows a thing or two about the power of education.

Judith Butler, for many years a professor of rhetoric and comparative literature at UC Berkeley, might be among the most influential intellectuals alive today. Even if you have never heard of them ...

How did gender become a scary word? The theorist who got us talking about the subject has answers. How did gender become a scary word? The theorist who got us talking about the subject has answers.

T he last decade or so has seen the rise of a curious crusade against “gender” — which at times seems to mean an academic field of study, at other times the existence of LGBTQ+ people in certain ...

Judith Butler is a professor in the Comparative Literature and Critical Theory department at the University of California, Berkeley, and most recently the author of Who’s Afraid of Gender? The 160 ...