Fascist Passions | Judith Butler responds to questions

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Published on April 30, 2024 4:00:51 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWkd7U4m--c

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Judith Butler responds to questions following a talk on the animosity towards gender.

Should what it means to be a woman remain an open question?
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Judith Butler, pioneering gender theorist whose changed the way we think about gender and sexuality, explores the topic of their most recent book, Who's Afraid of Gender? (March 2024). Butler offers a compelling and powerful diagnosis of the anxieties and fears that make up today's wars over gender. In this talk, Butler will explore how, despite 'gender' being the most fraught issue of our times, there is still cause for hope. This timely and timeless intervention continues to imagine new possibilities for freedom and solidarity.

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Judith Butler is Distinguished Professor in the Graduate School and formerly the Maxine Elliot Chair in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Program of Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley. They are most well-known for their ground-breaking book Gender Trouble (1990) and their theory of performativity.

00:00 Introduction
00:16 Why are underfunded rural communities turning to the far right?
02:35 Gender in education
04:49 How is the word ‘critical’ used in debates about gender?
08:11 Should the question of what it means to be a woman remain an open question? \n11:00 How can we go about reducing animosity and fear around the gender debate? \n13:32 How do we interact with the phantasm of gender in our day to day lives? \n
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