Word Weavers: Judith Butler

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Society & Culture, Education, History

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🗓️ 21 May 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Judith Butler (1956-present) is a renowned philosopher and gender theorist best known for their groundbreaking work on gender performativity, introduced in the influential 1990 book Gender Trouble. Their ideas have shaped the fields of queer theory, feminist thought, and critical theory, challenging traditional notions of identity, power, and the body.

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1:18.4	This month we're talking about word weavers, people who coined terms, popularized words,
1:23.2	and even created entirely new languages.
1:26.1	These activists, writers, artists, and scholars used language
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