In a wide-ranging interview, the 'rare celebrity academic' talks the state of anti-LGBTQ+ sentiment around the release of their new book Who's Afraid of Gender?
Judith Butler is so iconic, the invocation of their name alone – or of their first book, 1990 theory classic Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity – can work as a punchline in the queer and trans community. The rare international celebrity academic to be name-dropped in Drag Race, Butler has become queer shorthand for the modern American boogeyman that is “gender theory.
You have to ask yourself: What are they imagining, what kind of harm can happen there? Then they do harm in the name of preventing harm, and people get confused because they want to be against “harm.” We all want to be against harm, I presume. And yet, we need to be out there and speaking in more public ways, in order to explain the harm that's actually being done and why it's unjust. TV: We’re speaking shortly after the death of Nex Benedict. In an early statement, Oklahoma Rep.
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