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Popular sovereignty has to be given by a people to itself, and this is the important meaning of self-determination.

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Judith Butler
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: February 24
Art Theorist
Feminist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Philosopher
Sociologist
University Teacher
Writer
Cleveland
Ohio
Judith P. Butler
Judith Pamela Butler
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Sovereignty
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Let's face it. We're undone by each other. And if we're not, we're missing something.
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Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act… a doing rather than a being.
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Indeed it may be only by risking the incoherence of identity that connection is possible.
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If you are asking whether states and state actors can only respond through revenge, then you are suggesting that diplomatic solutions are hopeless.
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Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.
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Visual renditions of war not only establish what can be seen, and the audio-track established what can be heard, but the photographs also train us in ways of focusing on targets, ways of regarding suffering and loss.
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Gender is an identity tenuously constituted in time, instituted in an exterior space through a stylized repetition of acts.
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Gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original in fact, it is a kind of imitation that produces the very notion of the original as an effect and consequence of the imitation itself.
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To operate within the matrix of power is not the same as to replicate uncritically relations of domination.
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I want to say that the way in which we understand gender actually changes the way we live gender.
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Possibility is not a luxury it is as crucial as bread.
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The critical image... must not only fail to capture its referent, but show its failure.
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Gender trouble is old. I mean, you know, in New York, it is old. I mean it's sweet. I mean people are really kind about it but it's like a former love affair you had and you're done.
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Genocide is not a legitimate option. It's not ok to decide that an entire population has no right to live in the world. No matter whether these relationships are very proximate or very distant, there is no entitlement to expunge a population or to demean its basic humanity.
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All of those who inhabit the world have a right to be here by virtue of their being here at all. To be here means you have a right to be here.
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