Gender Quotes - Page 39

• Cross-dressing is more of a set of actions or behaviors and not synonymous with gender identity (straight, gay, bisexual, transgender, among others).

  Steven Petrow

  Gay, Bisexual, Identity

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• If we move away from either/or thinking, and if we think, okay, every day of my life that I walk out of my house I am a combination of race, gender, class, sexual preference and religion or what have you, what gets foregrounded?

  Bell Hooks

  Moving, Thinking, Race

  Source: nefac.net

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• Right now, for many Americans, class is being foregrounded like never before because of the economic situation. It doesn't mean that race doesn't matter, or gender doesn't matter, but it means that right now in many people's lives, in the lives of my own family members, people are losing jobs, insurance.

  Bell Hooks

  Jobs, Mean, Race

  Source: nefac.net

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• When people were very concerned about the violence against women, I encouraged people to stick with it because it was going somewhere and there was a reason why. It's all a commentary on gender roles and women and having to be the damsel or to stay on the ranch or to stay at home.

  Evan Rachel Wood

  Home, People, Roles

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• What's amazing about this show [Westworld], and what it gives us permission to do, is to be kind of superhuman. Because at the end of the day, [Dolores] she's not a male and she's not a female. She's evolved past that. She's a very highly advanced being, and so I think it's really going to knock down a lot of stereotypes and a lot of gender roles and be a neutral party.

  Evan Rachel Wood

  Party, Past, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Sizing was also important to me; I wanted to make sure that nobody felt alienated or felt like they weren't thought about in the process of this brand. I wanted to make sure that everyone felt included, which brings us to the gender neutral pieces - the idea of wearing what you want and whatever makes you feel comfortable and confident. I think that's the overall feeling of the Daya collection.

  Zendaya

  Thinking, Ideas, Feelings

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• The only bitterness I had is: Where is the conversation on gender? That's been going on since there have been men and women, and still we're not hearing about what they're going through.

  Joss Whedon

  Men, Hearing, Bitterness

  Source: m.motherjones.com

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• I really lucked out with that song ["As Cool As I Am"]. Men were becoming much more comfortable with all the different facets and parts of their identity, including their gentler, funnier, sillier, nurturing parts. They started showing up. There was so much exploration of gender at that time. Women were showing up with the range of ways of being female in the world and men were showing up with the range of being male in the world.

  Dar Williams

  Song, Men, Identity

  "Dar Williams returns to Mortal City". Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. November 3, 2016.

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• One thing in the Buddhadharma is that we are not our body, we are not our gender.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Body, One Thing

  Source: fpmt.org

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• I think I never expected "Gender trouble" to have any particularly revolutionary effect so whatever effects it has, I'm always surprised.

  Judith Butler

  Thinking, Revolutionary, Trouble

  Source: ilga.org

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• I think we have to ask, not, what "Gender trouble" is today but where "Gender trouble" is today.

  Judith Butler

  Thinking, Today, Trouble

  Source: ilga.org

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• For instance, when "Gender trouble " is translated into Japanese, it produces a problem of vocabulary and a way of thinking about a quality for instance that is somewhat controversial in academic circles and also outside of the academy. In other places, "Gender trouble" is old.

  Judith Butler

  Thinking, Circles, Vocabulary

  Source: ilga.org

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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.

  Judith Butler

  Sweet, New York, Mean

  Source: ilga.org

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• Look, "Gender trouble" includes a critique of the idea that there are two ideal bodily forms, two ideal morphologies: the masculine and the feminine. I want to suggest that today the intersex movement is very engaged with criticizing that idea.

  Judith Butler

  Ideas, Two, Looks

  Source: ilga.org

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• Not all bodies are born in male or female. There is a continuum of bodies and it seems to me that trying to persuade medical and psychiatrist establishments to deal with the intersex involves critique of the binary gender system. Similarly there continues to be extreme, sometimes very extreme violence against transgender people.

  Judith Butler

  People, Trying, Violence

  Source: ilga.org

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• It seems to me that "Gender trouble" will always be important to try and open up our ideas of what gender is. So, I don't know if it's revolutionary, but maybe it still has something to say to those issues.

  Judith Butler

  Ideas, Issues, Important

  Source: ilga.org

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• If we think about sexual life for a gender life, it seems to me that we have to allow for certain kinds of changes or certain kinds of ways of reconceptualizing ourselves.

  Judith Butler

  Thinking, Way, Kind

  Source: ilga.org

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• It's not my concern. It's your concern. I just keep working. I keep posing certain questions and I think there are times when people think "What happened to the Judith Butler I used to know?" or "She's not doing gender trouble. Does that mean she refuses it or she's disavowed it?" And I would say no. I have not refused or disavowed anything.

  Judith Butler

  Mean, Thinking, People

  Source: ilga.org

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• I have simply taken some of the same questions and reposed them in new ways. But, you see, I must live. Right? I mean I can't stay the same for everyone to be consumed as the author of "Gender trouble". I have to continue to live and that means I have to "reposer les questions".

  Judith Butler

  Taken, Mean, Way

  Source: ilga.org

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

  Judith Butler

  Want, Way

  Source: ilga.org

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• The important thing is to think about theory in life in that way. And I think we don't have to be theorists, we don't have to have gone to the academy, or to the university to learn theory and to be a theorist of gender.

  Judith Butler

  Thinking, Important, Gone

  Source: ilga.org

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

  Judith Butler

  Theory, Taxi, Drivers

  Source: ilga.org

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• Everyone has a set of presuppositions: what gender is, what it's not. And they may not write them out or they may not be in theoretical books published by Routledge, but they have a theory.

  Judith Butler

  Book, Writing, May

  Source: ilga.org

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• If you have a conversation "Why is it you think masculinity is linked with heterosexuality? Or why is it you think masculinity is linked with sexual dominance or the sexually active position in the sex act?" If you start to ask people those questions, then they realize "Maybe gender is not one thing. Maybe I have collected a number of things under one category and I've made a mistake".

  Judith Butler

  Sex, Mistake, Thinking

  Source: ilga.org

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• The United States are such a large place. And there are some states and some cities where the questions of gender or sexuality would not be asked, or where scholars or academics are working in small little corners of the universities trying to raise these questions and being told that either that they're strange or not appropriate or being actively opposed. There are other places where there is very active scholarship going on. Certainly on gender.

  Judith Butler

  Cities, Trying, United States

  Source: ilga.org

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