It’s been 35 years since the publication of Judith Butler’s book Gender Trouble, which argued that gender is performative (that is, it’s “real only to the extent that it’s performed”). Recently, the ...

Judith Butler gave the 2025 Ian Watt lecture, an event held by the Center for the Study of the Novel, on Tuesday evening. As a professor of comparative literature at the University of California, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. According to Britannica, Butler’s Gender Trouble was “one of the founding texts of queer theory,” and all of their work continues ...

Renowned queer feminist theorist Judith Butler has issued a warning to Americans outraged by Donald Trump to stop missing the forest for the trees. In an op-ed for The Guardian, Butler explained that ...

Sign up to receive our twice-weekly News & Politics newsletter. Long before gender theory became a principal target of the right, it existed principally in academic ...

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 ...

Judith Butler, the American gender theorist, said that the Hamas attack on Israeli civilians on October 7 was “not a terrorist attack” and “not an antisemitic attack,” but an “uprising” and “armed ...

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.

This is viewer supported news. Please do your part today. Watch Part 2 of our interview with philosopher Judith Butler, one of dozens of Jewish American writers and artists who signed an open letter ...

The 160 members of the university notified that their names were forwarded to the DOE’s Office for Civil Rights were not informed of any specific allegations against them. Judith Butler in ...

American Jewish philosopher Judith Butler recently insisted that the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas should not be dubbed as “terrorism,” but rather “armed resistance.” This articulation, argued the public ...