Judith Butler Quotes About Struggle

• When some people rejoin with “All Lives Matter” they misunderstand the problem, but not because their message is untrue. It is true that all lives matter, but it is equally true that not all lives are understood to matter which is precisely why it is most important to name the lives that have not mattered, and are struggling to matter in the way they deserve.

  Judith Butler

  Struggle, Names, People

  "What’s Wrong With ‘All Lives Matter’?". Interview with George Yancy, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. January 12, 2015.

• Gender assignment is a "construction" and yet many genderqueer and trans people refuse those assignments in part or in full. That refusal opens the way for a more radical form of self-determination, one that happens in solidarity with others who are undergoing a similar struggle.

  Judith Butler

  Determination, Struggle, Self

  Fuente: transadvocate.com

• We should all have greater freedoms to define and pursue our lives without pathologization, de-realization, harassment, threats of violence, violence, and criminalization. I join in the struggle to realize such a world.

  Judith Butler

  Struggle, Realization, World

  Fuente: transadvocate.com

• I did not mean to argue that gender is fluid and changeable (mine certainly is not). I only meant to say that we should all have greater freedoms to define and pursue our lives without pathologization, de-realization, harassment, threats of violence, violence, and criminalization. I join in the struggle to realize such a world.

  Judith Butler

  Struggle, Mean, Violence

  Source: www.transadvocate.com

• Let me say one thing to clarify my position. I think we can take distance from norm but I think we are also mired in norm, "empêtrés", I think you say in French. And I think the choices we can make are only in a certain struggle with the norms out of which we're constituted.

  Judith Butler

  Distance, Struggle, Thinking

  Source: ilga.org

• One struggles always with these norms. So one doesn't construct oneself freely without respect to norm but one works with one's historical situation and sees where there might be some play. Where there might be some freedom to move.

  Judith Butler

  Struggle, Moving, Play

  Source: ilga.org

• I think there is no one answer. It is still a struggle, there are tensions and I'm sure there are many people who would like to see these questions laid to rest or cease to be posed altogether.

  Judith Butler

  Lucha, Pensamiento, Gente

  Source: ilga.org

• We set the actors on the scene through the banal discourse of "conflict" in ways that fully deflect from the history and struggle of colonial resistance, refusing as well by that means to link the resistance to other forms of colonial resistance, their rationale, and their tactics.

  Judith Butler

  Struggle, Mean, Actors

  Interview with Cihan Aksan and Jon Bailes, www.counterpunch.org. October 11, 2013.

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