We're trying to divide groups or decide that some of them are truly victims and some of them are truly aggressors.
Judith ButlerIf gender is eradicated, so too is an important domain of pleasure for many people. And others have a strong sense of self bound up with their genders, so to get rid of gender would be to shatter their self-hood.
Judith ButlerIt seems to me that responsiveness is a better source for understanding what moral claims are and how they work upon us.
Judith ButlerWhat would it mean if we lived in a world in which no one held out for the possibility of substantial political equality, or for a full cessation of colonial practices - if no one held out for those things because they were impossible?
Judith Butler