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Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act… a doing rather than a being.

Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act… a doing rather than a being.

Judith Butler
Doe, Gender, Gender Identity

Our notions of what a human being is problematically depend on there being two coherent genders. And if someone doesn't comply with either the masculine norm or the feminine norm, their very humaness is called into question.

Judith Butler
Two, Feminine, Gender
Interview with Jill Stauffer, www.believermag.com. May, 2003.

Gender is an identity tenuously constituted in time, instituted in an exterior space through a stylized repetition of acts.

Judith Butler
Space, Identity, Gender
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity pt. 3, ch. 4 (1990)

I think we have to accept a wide variety of positions on gender. Some want to be gender-free, but others want to be free really to be a gender that is crucial to who they are.

Judith Butler
Thinking, Want, Gender
Source: transadvocate.com

There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original.

Judith Butler
Kind, Imitation, Gender
"Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity". Book by Judith Butler, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1990.

Every taxi driver I have ever spoken to has a theory of gender.

Judith Butler
Gender, Theory, Taxi
Source: ilga.org

There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender... identity is performatively constituted by the very 'expressions' that are said to be its results.

Judith Butler
Expression, Identity, Gender
Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor of Comparative Literature and Critical Theory Judith Butler (2002). “Gender Trouble: Tenth Anniversary Edition”, p.33, Routledge

I want to say that the way in which we understand gender actually changes the way we live gender.

Judith Butler
Want, Way, Gender
Source: ilga.org

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