I would say that I'm a feminist theorist before I'm a queer theorist or a gay and lesbian theorist.

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  It seems, though, that historically we have now reached a position in which Jews cannot legitimatel

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  Sexual harassment law is very important. But I think it would be a mistake if the sexual harassment

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  To say that gender is performative is a little different because for something to be performative m

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  We act as if that being of a man or that being of a woman is actually an internal reality or someth

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  I don't think we have to have a personal relation to a life lost to understand that something terri

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• Judith Butler:

  You only trust those who are absolutely like yourself, those who have signed a pledge of allegiance

• Judith Butler:

  Life has to be protected. It is precarious. I would even go so far as to say that precarious life i