«To make trouble was, within the reigning discourse of my childhood, something one should never do precisely because that would get one in trouble. The rebellion and its reprimand seemed to be caught up in the same terms, a phenomenon that gave rise to my first critical insight into the subtle ruse of power: the prevailing law threatened one with trouble, even put one in trouble, all to keep one out of trouble. Hence, I concluded that trouble is inevitable and the task, how best to make it, what best way to be in it.»
Judith Butler, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, prefacio de 1990, p. xxvii de la edición Routledge de 1999 (FUENTE PRIMARIA) fuente · sostiene 2 pasajes de esta ficha
«This last impresses me as particularly important considering that hate speech arguments have been invoked against minority groups, that is, in those contexts in which homosexuality is rendered graphic (Mapplethorpe) or verbally explicit (the U.S. military) and those in which African-American vernacular, especially in rap music, recirculates the terms of social injury and is thereby held responsible for such terms. Those efforts at regulation are inadvertently strengthened by the enhanced power of the state to enforce the distinction between publicly protected and unprotected speech.»
Judith Butler, Excitable Speech, cap. 2 «Sovereign Performatives», p. 97 (FUENTE PRIMARIA: el argumento empírico contra las leyes de discurso de odio) fuente
«The Jerusalem Post recently published an article reporting that some organizations are opposed to my receiving the Adorno Prize [...] The accusations against me are that I support Hamas and Hezbollah (which is not true) that I support BDS (partially true), and that I am anti-Semitic (patently false). [...] For those of us who are descendants of European Jews who were destroyed in the Nazi genocide (my grandmother's family was destroyed in a small village south of Budapest), it is the most painful insult and injury to be called complicitous with the hatred of Jews or to be called self-hating. [...] I received a Jewish education in Cleveland, Ohio at The Temple under the tutelage of Rabbi Daniel Silver where I developed strong ethical views on the basis of Jewish philosophical thought. [...] I was taught at every step in my Jewish education that it is not acceptable to stay silent in the face of injustice.»
Judith Butler, carta abierta en respuesta a la campaña contra la concesión del Premio Adorno, publicada en Mondoweiss, 27 de agosto de 2012 (FUENTE PRIMARIA) fuente
«In fact, I do condemn without qualification the violence committed by Hamas. This was a terrifying and revolting massacre. That was my primary reaction, and it endures. But there are other reactions as well. [...] However, we do not gain a moral or political justification for Hamas's actions through reference to their history.»
Judith Butler, «The Compass of Mourning», London Review of Books, vol. 45, n.º 20, 19 de octubre de 2023 (FUENTE PRIMARIA) fuente
«Oh, I never came out. I was outed by my parents at the age of 14. So, I've been identified variously as butch, queer, trans* for over 50 years. [...] I still rather think that pronouns come to me from others, which I find interesting, since I receive an array of them [...] I don't have an easy answer, though I am enjoying the world of “they”. When I wrote Gender Trouble, there was no category for “nonbinary” - but now I don't see how I cannot be in that category.»
Judith Butler entrevistada por Jules Gleeson, «Judith Butler: ‘We need to rethink the category of woman’», The Guardian, 7 de septiembre de 2021 (FUENTE PRIMARIA) fuente
«Finally there is despair at the heart of the cheerful Butlerian enterprise. The big hope, the hope for a world of real justice, where laws and institutions protect the equality and the dignity of all citizens, has been banished, even perhaps mocked as sexually tedious. Judith Butler's hip quietism is a comprehensible response to the difficulty of realizing justice in America. But it is a bad response. It collaborates with evil. Feminism demands more and women deserve better.»
Martha C. Nussbaum, «The Professor of Parody», The New Republic, 22 de febrero de 1999 (crítica desde el liberalismo igualitario) fuente
«Many quite nefarious ideologies pass for common sense. For decades of American history, it was ''common sense'' in some quarters for white people to own slaves and for women not to vote. [...] The targets, however, have been restricted to scholars on the left whose work focuses on topics like sexuality, race, nationalism and the workings of capitalism -- a point the news media ignored.»
Judith Butler, «A 'Bad Writer' Bites Back», The New York Times, 20 de marzo de 1999, respuesta al primer premio del concurso de mala escritura de Philosophy and Literature (FUENTE PRIMARIA; copia archivada de 2024) fuente
«I am not aware that terf is used as a slur. I wonder what name self-declared feminists who wish to exclude trans women from women's spaces would be called? If they do favour exclusion, why not call them exclusionary? [...] I disagree with JK Rowling's view on trans people, but I do not think she should suffer harassment and threats.»
Judith Butler entrevistada por Alona Ferber, «Judith Butler on the culture wars, JK Rowling and living in ‘anti-intellectual times’», New Statesman, 22 de septiembre de 2020 (FUENTE PRIMARIA; copia archivada de 2022) fuente
«Judith Butler is a Distinguished Professor in the Graduate School and formerly the Maxine Elliot Chair in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Program of Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley. They received their Ph.D. in philosophy from Yale University in 1984. [...] Their books have been translated into more than 27 languages. [...] They are the recipient of 18 honorary degrees. [...] In 2022, they received the Catalonia International Prize from the canton of Catalunya and the gold medal from the Circulo de Bellas Artes in Madrid.»
Ficha institucional de Judith Butler, Departamento de Literatura Comparada, Universidad de California en Berkeley fuente
«I propose to consider two different kinds of claims that have circulated recently [...] The second has to do with the tendency to relegate new social movements to the sphere of the cultural, indeed, to dismiss them as being preoccupied with what is called the 'merely' cultural, and then to construe this cultural politics as factionalizing, identitarian, and particularistic.»
Judith Butler, «Merely Cultural», New Left Review I/227, enero-febrero de 1998 (FUENTE PRIMARIA: la respuesta a la acusación marxista de identitarismo) fuente
«Butler stated in a 2010 interview with Haaretz that they began the ethics classes at the age of 14 [...] When asked what they wanted to study in these special sessions, Butler responded with three questions preoccupying them at the time: "Why was Spinoza excommunicated from the synagogue? Could German Idealism be held accountable for Nazism? And how was one to understand existential theology, including the work of Martin Buber?"»
«Judith Butler», Wikipedia en inglés (fuente usada solo para los datos de segunda mano de esta ficha: las tutorías reportadas por Haaretz en 2010, las cifras de ventas de Gender Trouble, el rechazo del premio del CSD de Berlín en 2010, los objetores al Premio Adorno de 2012 y la polémica alemana sobre el ensayo de 2023 y el episodio de septiembre de 2025 con el Departamento de Educación) fuente
«This is particularly the case with gender performativity, continually misrepresented as “performance” in order to accuse Butler of declaring that sex doesn't matter, and that gender is just some drag costume we choose to take on and off. [...] In 2015, Pope Francis compared gender theory to nuclear weapons, claiming it was an annihilating force that refused to recognise the order of creation. Italian prime minister Georgia Meloni has warned that gender ideology will strip everyone of their sexed identity. Vladimir Putin refers to Europe as “Gayropa”.»
Finn Mackay, «Who's Afraid of Gender? by Judith Butler review - the gender theorist goes mainstream», The Guardian, 13 de marzo de 2024 fuente
«2019: Doctorado honoris causa de la Universidad de Chile [...] Doctorado honoris causa por la Universidad de Buenos Aires (2015) [...] Doctorado honoris causa por la Universidad de Costa Rica (2015) [...] Doctorado honoris causa por la Universidad de Guadalajara (2018)»
«Judith Butler», Wikipedia en español, sección «Premios y reconocimientos» (fuente usada solo para el listado de honoris causa en el mundo hispanohablante) fuente
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