Judith Butler: “Why Bodies Matter” - Gender Trouble | Full Conference

Judith Butler’s conference entitled
“Why Bodies Matter”
on June 2nd 2015
in the context of the celebrations of
“Gender Trouble”’s
25th anniversary in
Teatro Maria Matos in Lisbon
Conferência de Judith Butler
Why Bodies Matter
2 junho 2015
Teatro Maria Matos
Gender Trouble
Performance, Performatividade e Política de Género
5 maio a 24 junho 2015
Publicado em 1990, o livro Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity é uma marca não só na história dos Estudos do Género e do feminismo contemporâneo, mas também nos Estudos da Performance, pela ligação que estabelece entre o género e a performance, através do conceito da performatividade do género. Ao longo dos últimos 25 anos, Judith Butler nunca deixou de marcar presença no debate acerca do género e da sexualidade e continuou a inspirar académicos, feministas, artistas e ativistas pelos direitos das comunidades LGBTQI com publicações como Bodies that Matter: on the Discursive Limits of Sex (1993), Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative (1997), Antigone's Claim (2000) e Undoing Gender (2004). Judith Butler é professora do Departamento de Literatura Comparada e do programa de Teoria Crítica da Universidade da Califórnia, em Berkeley.
Vinte e cinco anos depois da publicação de Gender Trouble. Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, de Judith Butler, o Teatro Maria Matos propôs-se como espaço para debater, observar e experienciar a performatividade de género, num ciclo com debates, espetáculos, intervenções artísticas e workshops, ao longo de um mês e meio. As conferências encerraram com a participação de Judith Butler perante uma sala cheia naquela que foi a sua primeira conferência em Lisboa.
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curadoria: Salomé Coelho e Mark Deputter
com Andreia Cunha, Laura Lopes e Sezen Tonguz
Gender Trouble é um projecto House on Fire com o apoio do Programa Cultura da União Europeia
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[@bobrolander4344]

Judith Butler: One of the greatest thinkers of our time.

[@RealCutPlay]

6:30

[@Hist_da_Musica]

Ótima palestra! ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽

[@17thstellation]

excellent, this truly deepened my understanding of hollow knight lore, thank you [REDACTED]

[@pippiniyt]

Lbtavares Tavares, do you know if there is an English transcript available of this lecture anywhere? For accessibility reasons, I'd prefer to be able to read it if possible... Thanks.

[@sophiepecorari5784]

Has this been written or only on video?

[@upasanaghosh1053]

How can people be so intelligent, and I am not!!!

[@caromikalef4602]

my kind of sermon - so greatfull to such a fresh air in the semantics of 'the bodies'

[@SmokenJs]

starts at

[@rebal1681]

I have never heard of anyone claiming that the ability to reproduce is what define sex. Never. Reoroduction is one component of sex among about 6000 biological markers that define sex.

[@clfm20]

If she believes that what defines which sex a person is has changed significantly through history, perhaps she should name an historical figure who would be assigned a different sex today than they were deemed to be during their lifetime. I can't think of any myself.

[@daxeckenberg]

I stumbled across this recently. This seems to be a whole lot of effort to explain away mammalian evolution. Evolutionary success is dependant on the sex binary. One group of individuals possess large gametes while the other group possesses small gametes. We define those with large gametes (eggs) as women or females and those with small gametes (sperm) as males or men. There are of course individuals who have genetic or developmental issues which prevent them from either as a woman to become pregnant and bear children or as a man to impregnate a woman. But with all of those individuals something has gone awry. I find it puzzling that we spend so much effort trying to justify their existence by trying to dismantle the binary that is present in all primate biology. What is it about sex or gender that's driving this desire to adjust what is evolutionarily the norm. We don't do this , at least not with this fervor , with any of the other issues that impact human development.

[@clfm20]

By the 21st minute she seems to have dissolved in to gibberish.

[@arizafra7349]

muchas gracias por compartir

[@sunshinedenney8695]

❤️

[@abetheape38]

Loved this lecture by JB. One of the greatest thinkers of our time, and has radically altered our heteronormative conceptions of gender and sexuality. This entire video was great, minus the moderator who comes off as an authoritarian control freak and asshat.

[@magnojuniormagno2921]

Libertadora!

[@ricardocosta351]

What an admirable thinker. Butler's philosophy does a great service to society as she is a strong voice in favour of those which society decided to exclude, not only LGBT people but anyone who lives precarious lives.

[@cherrypixmovies3322]

Hi, Lbtavares Tavares. Thanks for posting this, really helpful. I am an independent film maker and currently working on a short film on understanding queer theory from my geographical and cultural position of a South Asian artist. I am collaborating with a friend of mine, a talented performance artist from India Kaur Chimuk. I would love to use some audio excerpts of this video. Please let me know if I can do that. Please note that ours is an independent film made with the sole intention of understanding queer theory and does not have any profit motive.

[@chriswalker7632]

I think I really only understood Butler's position on trans people - that it not being a contradiction of her approach to gender - after I had understood Martin Heidegger/Existentialism. And I only understood Heidegger because I had come to similar conclusions already after looking into neuroscience that affirmed to me that being trans was innate. I started looking into neuroscience because of prejudice against trans people by some out spoken feminists - so why do I still think Butler's position is okay?