Gender assignment is a "construction" and yet many genderqueer and trans people refuse those assignments in part or in full. That refusal opens the way for a more radical form of self-determination, one that happens in solidarity with others who are undergoing a similar struggle.
Judith ButlerWe're trying to divide groups or decide that some of them are truly victims and some of them are truly aggressors.
Judith ButlerWar begets war. It produces outraged and humiliated and furious people. That is almost invariably the case.
Judith ButlerMaybe one of the jobs of theory or philosophy is to elevate principles that seem impossible, or that have the status of the impossible, to stand by them and will them, even when it looks highly unlikely that they'll ever be realised. But that's ok, it's a service.
Judith Butler