Who's Afraid of Gender? (A Guide to Judith Butler)

MUSIC:

BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Sara Ahmed, The Cultural Politics of Emotion
Lily Alexandre, Fear of Trans Bodies
Lily Alexandre, The Feminist to Far-Right Pipeline
Fran Amery, “Protecting Children in ‘Gender Critical’ Rhetoric and Strategy: Regulating Childhood for Cisgender Outcomes,” in Journal of Diversity and Gender Studies
Mira Bellwether, F*****g Trans Women
Talia Mae Bettcher, “Evil Deceivers and Make-Believers,” in Hypatia
Haley Marie Brown, “The Forgotten Murders: Gendercide in the Twenty-First Century and the Destruction of the Transgender Body,” in Denial: The Final Stage of Genocide?
Shelley Budgeon, “Identity as an Embodied Event,” in Body & Society
Judith Butler, Excitable Speech
Judith Butler, Gender Trouble
Judith Butler, “Imitation and Gender Subordination”
Judith Butler, Precarious Life
Judith Butler, Who’s Afraid of Gender?
Judith Butler, “Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory,” in Theatre Journal
Andrea Long Chu, “Freedom of Sex: The Moral Case for Letting trans Kids Change Their Bodies,” in The New Yorker
Caelen Conrad, “Gender Critical: Conversion Therapy”
Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
Julia Dauksza et al., “Salve Maria, Or Millions Made in Poland,” in VSquare
Julia Dauksza et al., “The Golden Boys of Fatima,” in VSquare
Julia Dauksza et al., “The Golden Lion Roars from Cracow,” in VSquare
Petula Dvorak, “LGBTQ+ Teens Won A Grant for Their School. Adults Sent the Money Back.,” in The Washington Post
Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality
Agnieszka Graff and Elzbieta Korolczuk, Anti-Gender Politics in the Populist Moment
Mauro Cabal Grinspan et al., “Exploring TERFnesses,” in Journal of Diversity and Gender Studies
Virginia Guitzel, “Notes from Brazil,” in Transgender Marxism
Sally Haslanger, “Feminism in Metaphysics,” in Resisting Reality
Claire C.A. House, “‘I’m Real, Not You’: Roles and Discourse of Trans Exclusionary Women’s and Feminist Movements in Anti-Gender and Right-Wing Populist Politics,” in Journal of Diversity and Gender Studies
Innuendo Studios, “Endnote 5: A Case Study in Digital Radicalisation”
Eleanor Janega, The Once and Future Sex
Julia Kristeva, "Woman Can Never Be Defined," trans. Marilyn A. August, in New French Feminism
Harry Lambert, “Rosie Duffield: “You Never Change Sex”,” in The New Statesman
Stephanie Mayer and Birgit Sauer, “‘Gender Ideology’ in Austria: Coalitions Around an Empty Signifier,” in Anti-Gender Campaigns in Europe
Michael Naas, “Comme si, comme ca,” in Derrida From Now On
Leah Owen, “Parasitically occupying bodies: Exploring toxifying securitization in antitrans and genocidal ideologies,” in Peace Review
Alison Rumfitt, Brainwyrms
Julia Serano, Sexed Up
Julia Serano, Whipping Girl
Shaun, J.K. Rowling’s New Friends
Shaun, Kelly Jay Keen and the Neo-Nazis
Shaun, Palestine
Laura J. Shepherd and Laura Sjoberg, “Trans-Bodies in/of War(s): Cisprivilege and Contemporary Security Strategy,” in Feminist Review
C. Riley Snorton, Black on Both Sides
Darin Tenev, “La Déconstruction en enfant: the Concept of Phantasm in the Work of Derrida”
Monique Wittig, “One is Not Born A Woman”

00:00 - 02:31 Introduction
02:31 - 04:10 "I'm You From the Future"
04:10 - 10:15 Judith Butler and Performativity
10:15 - 10:42 "Just listen to me!"
10:42 - 20:33 Biology & Social Constructs
20:33 - 36:52 "Politics in the future gets weird!"
36:52 - 55:29 the Anti-Gender Movement
55:29 - 57:08 "The personal is political"
57:08 - 1:04:37 What can we do?
1:04:37 - 1:15:08 This is what we can do.

#books #philosophy

[PhilosophyTube]

If you'd like to see the full scene with me and Rhys without the video essay bits in between, it's on Nebula!

[Egg_thing]

Talking about an unnamed mysterious femboy streamer, only referred to by "F" and then immediately having Finn read a quote is a great bit

[dulcineaquinn]

"The truth is there is no sex" I know, I'm not having any

[tommysversionn]

It finally happened. She said “if you’re very clever you’ll know where this is going” and I DID

[devan]

At a pride parade in Eastern Europe, counterprotestors shouted “go back to your country” at native-born, native language speaking queer people. They knew those queer people were natives. They still said it. I thought it was a simple thing of them parroting American bigotry without thinking deeper into their actual ideology, but the “anti-gender movement” chapter really made me think about the deeper significance behind their statement and the reason they said it. Honestly, thank you.

[benjaminbunny]

Hello Abigail,

I identify as a cis-white-male in the U.S. State of Oklahoma. I’m not sure if you’ve heard of it, but it is one of the more “conservative” U.S. states. You played a big part in breaking me out of my phantasm related to gender ideology just in time for me to be there to accept some of my best friends as they began to identify as trans.

I just wanted to let you know that the brain wyrms aren’t terminal.

Good work, and thank you.

[sarahndipity]

"They think that listening is an act of submission." You just blew my mind and explained my failed marriage.

[sayven]

"If a tree falls in a forest and nobody's around to hear it, it has no pronouns" Nice throwback, the question is finally answered!

[spiderhybrid]

“The only people who don’t change are the dead”

That’s heavy. And she’s right. To live is change. It’s a constant. To stop changing is to stop living, consciously or not.

I’ll remember this one.

[Lefthandedbanana]

I thought it was interesting that Abby and Rhys switch between using ‘you’ ‘I’ and ‘we’ depending on the context during the dialog

[LavenderGooms]

Regarding "it's gonna fuck up our love life"- it's difficult to overstate just how attractive a feature happiness is to most people.

[icaroviana]

"I think it is really sad when people refuse their own complexity" hit hard here.

[MyCaptainPugwash]

Ok, I am a 51 year old male bought up in a rural town in Australia, and while I do consider myself a leftist, I am also a product of my age and upbringing, and I am in some regards set in my ways. I think to myself, nah I am to old to change I am open in many ways and why do I have to be understanding on this - insert subject here -, then one of your damn videos comes along, with its wit and intelligence. And I have to go off and do some reading and find myself changing my views, and having to readjust my thinking. And to this, I say thank you, thank you for making this middle age white male look at the subject and his inner self and making him have to broaden his understanding and view. Its not the first time you have done it, and I think it wont be the last.

[Weendigo]

"And this is a common mistake. We might even call it... A phallacy." And here I was expecting a cock-up.

[anarchisttechsupport]

"I didn't feel entitled to be there" is such a painful regret. That hits hard.

[Cosmosisification]

"Wittig suggested everyone become lesbians"

Wittig- "What if we just all had sex with each other haha that would be so crazyyyy idk haha"

[azailetta]

Hey, Abigail! I usually don't comment, but this video has absolutely brought me to tears, and I need to thank you, really. I am used to be... what is called "a terf". I was extremely transfobic because of severe sexual abuse and an abusive dad, and I was radicalised at a young age, just fresh out of my sexual trauma. In a way, my narcissistic dad made me really reluctant to be rude to people or exclude them aggressively, and I began to thaw with time as my friends started to come out as non-binary and trans. But your videos were a breaking point. I thought you were a "legit" woman, and watched, and listened, and when I found out you're trans I just... listened more. And more. And more. And now I advocate for trans people, and I celebrate them, for I know that the protection of trans rights is so important and actually a part of protecting women's rights. I finally feel as a good person, and I am kind to myself, which "radical feminism" forbade. And I am so thankful to you, and your videos, and the transformation you have gifted me. It's the greatest gift I have ever received.

Public education works. You just give it a little bit of time and a support system. And as I continue to educate my other friends about trans people, I say a thank-you to you all the time.

Thank you so much! And love from Ukraine ❤

[MrAcuriteOf]

"Bigger than Star Wars"

Oh my God, they're making her into a Pokemon.

[blairbabylon]

“An IMAX-level act of projection” OMG what a PERFECT phrase.

[maddie]

J.K. Rowling being told to touch grass and talk about _literally anything other than how much she hates trans people_ by _Elon Musk_ of all people will never stop being funny to me.