"It's my view that gender is culturally formed, but it's also a domain of agency or freedom and that it is most important to resist the violence that is imposed by ideal gender norms, especially against those who are gender different, who are nonconforming in their gender presentation."

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Source : "Your Behavior Creates Your Gender". Big Think interview, bigthink.com.

Judith Butler

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“To me, I think justice is part of forgiving, if it is well done with love.”
“It's important for us to become aware of the fact that we are needful, for with that awareness also comes the sensing that we couldn't be needful if there weren't something to fulfill the need.”
“The music world taught me a lot.It taught me how much happiness it could take from you. J. Cole said it in that interview: People forget their happiness and what makes them happy. Like, what you really wanted to do it for.”
“I've thought Cheney was scary for a long time. Now I know I was right to be nervous.”
“Basketball is my refuge, my sanctuary. I go back to being a kid on the playground. When I get here, it's all good.”
“Engineering is merely the slow younger brother of physics.”

Source : "The Big Bang Theory (TV Series): The Killer Robot Instability". www.imdb.com. 2009.
“I'm hoping my presence alone in Russia will be a show of strength for the Russian LGBT community,”
“If ever wife was happy in a man, compare with me, ye women if you can.”

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