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What we need is a political and joyous alternative to the behaviorist discourse, the Christian discourse on evil or sin, and the convergence of the two in forms of gender policing that [is] tyrannical and destructive.

Judith Butler

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Judith Butler
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: February 24
Art Theorist
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Cleveland
Ohio
Judith P. Butler
Judith Pamela Butler
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