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Judith Butler on Why Gender Is in Trump’s Crosshairs

Judith Butler on Why Gender Is in Trump’s Crosshairs

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Philosopher and critical theorist Judith Butler, Distinguished
Professor in the Graduate School at UC Berkeley, has been at the
forefront of gender theory for 35 years. But while their work
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, which
helped establish the idea of gender as a social construct in the
1990s, was lauded by the LGBTQIA+ community for opening the doors
to queer theory, they’ve been vilified by those on the right for
whom gender theory is a threat to “tradition.” Kara and
Judith talk about their latest book, Who’s Afraid of Gender, which
analyses the growing attacks on gender and gender theory around the
world; how Trump’s executive order redefining sex as binary impacts
everything from personal rights to medical research; and why recent
attacks on the independence of universities could have a chilling
effect on academic freedom in the long term. Questions?
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