A leading figure in feminism and gender studies, the thinker welcomes EL PAÍS in California after being voted one of the most influential minds in the world
Easy to upvote the headline but I would encourage people to read the whole interview, it was fantastic. Very insightful thoughts on a wide variety of topics. I’ve never ready any of their works but now I’m very interested to check them out.
short crash course by philosphy tube about judith butler:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVilpxowsUQ
TL;DW: butler isn’t exactly easy to read, but has extremely interesting stuff to say; just uses very technical language to make her points, which sometimes confuses the layperson…but still worth reading, just maybe take more breaks than usual to really digest the content and expect the read to take longer than the page count would suggest and you’ll do fine ;)
Thanks, this will be a good starting point. There is a limit to my tolerance for impenetrable writing so I guess I’ll see how I feel about the style.
Isn’t she seen as harmful for non-cis/or transwomen LGBT folks? I’m not super knowledgeable on her though
In what way? As far as I know they have spoken out against TERFs and the like and are themselves not identifying as cis.
Specifically I know they have always argued for a more open and inclusive perspective of womanhood so I‘m unfamiliar on how they would be problematic.
Butler — a pioneering voice in feminism, gender studies, critical theory, and contemporary philosophy — registered as non-binary in California years ago. While their pronouns changed to they/them, they chose to keep their name, a decision, they say, surprised the courthouse clerk at the time.
You’d hope not.
Then I must be misremembering!
The irony of misgendering a nonbinary person while asking whether it’s true that they’re considered harmful by non-cis people.
