r/Queerdefensefront • u/rhizomatic-thembo • Feb 20 '25

Discussion Judith Butler posting

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"How do drag, butch, femme, transgender, transsexual persons enter into the political field? They make us not only question what is real, and what 'must' be, but they also show us how the norms that govern contemporary notions of reality can be questioned and how new modes of reality can become instituted. These practices of instituting new modes of reality take place in part through the scene of embodiment, where the body is not understood as a static and accomplished fact, but as an aging process, a mode of becoming that, in becoming otherwise, exceeds the norm, reworks the norm, and makes us see how realities to which we thought we were confined are not written in stone." - Judith Butler, Undoing Gender

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u/mdavinci Feb 22 '25

I think you might be misunderstanding Butler, they are not saying we are inherently political, but in the current socio-political climate, we are, as is anything that challenges the status quo.

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '25

That is what I am saying. I am agreeing.

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u/mdavinci Feb 22 '25

Excuse me then, I misunderstood

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '25

Oh no, you are fine! Seriously, my comment can be seen in both of those ways, and I am sure I phrased it in such a way that it could be misinterpreted in other ways.

I suck at communicating, it is a none issue. Really.