Judith Butler at Occupy Wall Street

Meeting Judith Butler

Yesterday I experienced what it's like to listen to Judith Butler in person. She is as amazing in person, and very witty, as I imagined she would be. She spoke at the University of Stellenbosch, my alma mater. The conversation mainly focused on performativity, gender, grief and Zionism. She makes such amazing, conclusive arguments for everything she talks about. I had to run up to her after the talk and ask her to sign my Masters thesis!

A walk with Judith Butler and Sunaura Taylor

In this video, Judith Butler and Sunaura Taylor talk about normalised movement in a very refreshing way. Movements are normalised to such an extent that we attribute certain uses to specific body parts. The normalised view, according to which body parts should perform certain movements, is disturbed, for example, when someone carries a coffee cup with their mouth...

Judith Butler on performativity

Judith Butler on: The way someone walks

The iconic gender theorist, Judith Butler, speaks here about the fear that people have for - and how they are threatened by - abnormal masculinity, femininity, or so-called 'abnormal orientations'.