More than 30 years after it was published, the seminal queer theory text still has some things to say. The author and her twin sister as children, not long after Gender Trouble was published. Spring ...

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 ...

Being pregnant, I get a front-row seat to the gender-policing that happens before a baby’s even born. By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive occasional ...

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 is so iconic that just the invocation of their name — or their first book, 1990's theory classic Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity — can work as a punchline in the ...

Louise Richardson-Self receives funding from the Australian Research Council for two projects: DE190100719: Hate Speech Against Women Online: Concepts and Countermeasures; and DP200100395: Religious ...

One of the most notable studies of gender and philosophy of the 1990s is Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble (1990) wherein she critiques the work of Simone de Beauvoir and Luce Irigaray in order to ...

How far can identity politics really take us? The latest evidence of their success is all around us. From the Supreme Court decision on homosexual privacy to the “metrosexual” makeovers of straight ...