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| | picture = Judith Butler al CCCB 2018.jpg
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| | caption = Butler in 2018
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| | date_birth = February 24, 1956
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| | place_birth = Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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| | nationality = American
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| | pronouns = [[she/her]] or [[they/them]]<ref name="Ferber">{{Cite web |title=Judith Butler on the culture wars, JK Rowling and living in 'anti-intellectual times' |last=Ferber |first=Alona |work=newstatesman.com |date=22 September 2020 |access-date=31 October 2020 |url= https://www.newstatesman.com/international/2020/09/judith-butler-culture-wars-jk-rowling-and-living-anti-intellectual-times|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230621144649/https://www.newstatesman.com/international/2020/09/judith-butler-culture-wars-jk-rowling-and-living-anti-intellectual-times |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>
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| | gender = Nonbinary<ref name="kian">{{Cite web |title=Judith Butler on her Philosophy and Current Events |author=kian |work=Interviews by Kian |date=27 December 2019 |access-date=31 October 2020 |url= https://interviewsbykian.wordpress.com/2019/12/27/judith-butler-on-her-philosophy-and-current-events/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230329113120/https://interviewsbykian.wordpress.com/2019/12/27/judith-butler-on-her-philosophy-and-current-events/ |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>
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| | occupation = Philosopher, writer
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| '''Judith Pamela Butler''' is an American philosopher and gender theorist whose work has influenced political philosophy, ethics, and the fields of third-wave [[Feminism|feminist]], queer theory, and literary theory. Their 1990 book ''Gender Trouble'' introduced the idea of [[Gender expression|performing or "doing" gender]]<ref name="Fischer">{{Cite web |title=Think Gender Is Performance? You Have Judith Butler to Thank for That. |last=Fischer |first=Molly |work=The Cut |date=21 June 2016 |access-date=4 May 2020 |url= https://www.thecut.com/2016/06/judith-butler-c-v-r.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230223024038/https://www.thecut.com/2016/06/judith-butler-c-v-r.html |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref> and criticized the [[gender binary]].<ref name="famo_Judi">{{Cite web |title=Judith Butler |author= |work=famousphilosophers.org |date= |access-date=4 May 2020 |url= https://www.famousphilosophers.org/judith-butler/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230618224903/https://www.famousphilosophers.org/judith-butler/|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref>
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| Butler uses singular they pronouns.<ref>Kathryn Fischer (May 13, 2020). "[https://www.tagesspiegel.de/gesellschaft/queerspiegel/gender-und-grammatik-das-pronomen-ist-frei-vom-koerper-aber-es-ist-nicht-frei-vom-geschlecht/25826376.html Das Pronomen ist frei vom Körper - aber es ist nicht frei vom Geschlecht]". ''Der Tagesspiegel'' (in German). Retrieved September 24, 2020. [https://web.archive.org/web/20230327084943/https://www.tagesspiegel.de/gesellschaft/queerspiegel/gender-und-grammatik-das-pronomen-ist-frei-vom-koerper-aber-es-ist-nicht-frei-vom-geschlecht/25826376.html Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>
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| In 2012 they were presented with the Theodor W. Adorno Award for outstanding achievement in philosophy.
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| In 2013, Darin Barney of McGill University wrote that:
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| {{quote|Butler's work on gender, sex, sexuality, queerness, [[feminism]], bodies, political speech and ethics has changed the way scholars all over the world think, talk and write about [[identity]], subjectivity, power and politics. It has also changed the lives of countless people whose bodies, genders, sexualities and desires have made them subject to violence, exclusion and oppression.<ref>{{cite news|last=Barney|first=Darin|title=In Defense of Judith Butler|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/darin-barney/in-defense-of-judith-butler-mcgill_b_3346589.html|work=Huffington Post|accessdate=9 October 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230407210822/https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/darin-barney/in-defense-of-judith-butler-mcgill_b_3346589.html|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref>}}
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| Butler is a lesbian and lives with their partner Wendy Brown, a political theorist; they have a son together.
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| {{quote|If someone asks for recognition as a given gender or wishes to be addressed by a certain [[pronoun]], it is important to honor that request for recognition and change one's language practice.<ref name="kian2019">{{Cite web |title=Judith Butler on her Philosophy and Current Events |author=kian |work=Interviews by Kian |date=27 December 2019 |access-date=19 June 2021 |url= https://interviewsbykian.wordpress.com/2019/12/27/judith-butler-on-her-philosophy-and-current-events/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230329113120/https://interviewsbykian.wordpress.com/2019/12/27/judith-butler-on-her-philosophy-and-current-events/ |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>}} | | {{quote|If someone asks for recognition as a given gender or wishes to be addressed by a certain [[pronoun]], it is important to honor that request for recognition and change one's language practice.<ref name="kian2019">{{Cite web |title=Judith Butler on her Philosophy and Current Events |author=kian |work=Interviews by Kian |date=27 December 2019 |access-date=19 June 2021 |url= https://interviewsbykian.wordpress.com/2019/12/27/judith-butler-on-her-philosophy-and-current-events/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230329113120/https://interviewsbykian.wordpress.com/2019/12/27/judith-butler-on-her-philosophy-and-current-events/ |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>}} |