Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed. Judith Butler biologicallyconstructfeminine Change image and share on social
When Zionism becomes co-extensive with Jewishness, Jewishness is pitted against the diversity that defines democracy, and if I may say so, betrays one of the most important ethical dimensions of the diasporic Jewish tradition: namely, the obligation of co-habitation with those different from ourselves. Judith Butler betraydefinedemocracy share on social
I think that every sexual position is fundamentally comic. Judith Butler comicfundamentallyposition Change image and share on social
A challenge to the right of Israel to exist can be construed as a challenge to the existence of the Jewish people only if one believes that Israel alone keeps the Jewish people alive or that all Jews invest their sense of perpetuity in the state of Israel in its current or traditional forms. Judith Butler alivebelievechallenge share on social
We act as if that being of a man or that being of a woman is actually an internal reality or something that is simply true about us, a fact about us, but actually it's a phenomenon that is being produced all the time and reproduced all the time, so to say gender is performative is to say that nobody really is a gender from the start. Judith Butler actfactgender share on social
You only trust those who are absolutely like yourself, those who have signed a pledge of allegiance to this particular identity. Judith Butler absolutelyallegianceidentity Change image and share on social
Race and class are rendered distinct analytically only to produce the realization that the analysis of the one cannot proceed without the other. A different dynamic it seems to me is at work in the critique of new sexuality studies. Judith Butler analysisanalyticallyclass share on social
There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original. Judith Butler draggenderimitate Change image and share on social
A man who reads effeminate may well be consistently heterosexual, and another one might be gay. We can't read sexuality off of gender. Judith Butler consistentlyeffeminategay Change image and share on social
When one set of Jews labels another set of Jews 'anti-Semitic,' they are trying to monopolize the right to speak in the name of the Jews. So the allegation of anti-Semitism is actually a cover for an intra-Jewish quarrel. Judith Butler allegationanticover share on social