Our notions of what a human being is problematically depend on there being two coherent genders. And if someone doesn't comply with either the masculine norm or the feminine norm, their very humaness is called into question.
As we interpret ourselves differently, we also live ourselves differently. - Judith Butler
As we interpret ourselves differently, we also live ourselves differently.
- Judith Butler
Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed. - Judith Butler
Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.
Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act… a doing rather than a being. - Judith Butler
Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act… a doing rather than a being.
Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act... a "doing" rather than a "being". There is no gender identity behind the expr… - Judith Butler
Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act... a "doing" rather than a "being". There is no gender identity behind the expr…
We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world. - Judith Butler
We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world.
Possibility is not a luxury; it is as crucial as bread. - Judith Butler
Possibility is not a luxury; it is as crucial as bread.
All of us, as bodies, are in the active position of figuring out how to live with and against the constructions - or norms - that help to form us. - Judith Butler
All of us, as bodies, are in the active position of figuring out how to live with and against the constructions - or norms - that help to form us.
We form ourselves within the vocabularies that we did not choose, and sometimes we have to reject those vocabularies, or actively develop new ones. - Judith Butler
We form ourselves within the vocabularies that we did not choose, and sometimes we have to reject those vocabularies, or actively develop new ones.
We act as if that being of a man or that being of a woman is actually an internal reality or something that is simply true about us, a fact about us,… - Judith Butler
We act as if that being of a man or that being of a woman is actually an internal reality or something that is simply true about us, a fact about us,…
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