Teaching excerpts from Gender Trouble tomorrow, and it’s striking to see both how Butler’s claims have become central to contemporary culture, and how they are still ahead of us.
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@vjoshuaadams It's one of the crowning ironies of the last couple decades that widespread acceptance of the sex/gender distinction, with gender as performance and construction, has so nicely set up the gender-critical collapse into "sex is real, gender is made up."
@pauline I know — as if we don’t live our whole lives in a world we’ve made!