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Indeed it may be only by risking the incoherence of identity that connection is possible.

Indeed it may be only by risking the incoherence of identity that connection is possible.

Judith Butler
Identity, Connections, May
Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor of Comparative Literature and Critical Theory Judith Butler (2011). “Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex”, p.75, Taylor & Francis

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)

You only trust those who are absolutely like yourself, those who have signed a pledge of allegiance to this particular identity.

Judith Butler
Identity, Allegiance, Particular

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

Do we need recourse to a happier state before the law in order to maintain that contemporary gender relations and the punitive production of gender identities are oppressive?

Judith Butler
Order, Law, Identity
Judith Butler (2011). “Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity”, p.102, Routledge

Surely binationalism is not love, but there is, we might say, a necessary and impossible attachment that makes a mockery of identity, an ambivalence that emerges from the decentering of the nationalist ethos and that forms the basis of a permanent ethical demand.

Judith Butler
Ethos, Attachment, Identity
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