Genocide is not a legitimate option. It's not ok to decide that an entire population has no right to live in the world. No matter whether these relationships are very proximate or very distant, there is no entitlement to expunge a population or to demean its basic humanity.
Judith ButlerI'm trying to think of what happens if we take expulsion off the table for everyone, and instead think about the rights of those who have been expelled already, which would include the various rights of refugees who came to Israel in the aftermath of WWII, but also those from other countries, and what rights the Palestinians have who have been dispossessed of their lands and homes.
Judith ButlerGender is an identity tenuously constituted in time, instituted in an exterior space through a stylized repetition of acts.
Judith ButlerWe have to ask how we can stretch and how sometimes we can break the norms that determine what's intelligible and readable and what is not.
Judith Butler