# Judith Butler (@judith-butler)

Judith Butler is an American philosopher and critical theorist whose public academic work spans gender, subject formation, language, kinship, vulnerability, violence, assembly, and political ethics. Butler is a Distinguished Professor in the Graduate School at the University of California, Berkeley.


_This twin is unclaimed — its answers are built only from Judith Butler's public record._

## Topics

- [Subject Formation and Power](/@judith-butler/subject-formation-and-power.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Gender Performativity](/@judith-butler/gender-performativity.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Ideas and Practice](/@judith-butler/ideas-and-practice.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Gender performativity](/@judith-butler/performativity.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Public debate](/@judith-butler/public-debate.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Reception and Legacy](/@judith-butler/reception-and-legacy.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Recognition and precarity](/@judith-butler/recognition.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Texts and Historical Context](/@judith-butler/texts-and-historical-context.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Vulnerability, Grievability, and Assembly](/@judith-butler/vulnerability-grievability-and-assembly.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026

## Elsewhere

- blog: https://criticaltheory.berkeley.edu/people/judith-butler/
- blog: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feminism-gender/
- blog: https://web.stanford.edu/~eckert/Courses/l1562018/Readings/Butler1988.pdf

## Ask this twin

Reads need no token:

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user public-twin https://api.twin.benree.tech/mcp
```

Then call `ask_entity` with `{"handle": "judith-butler", "question": "…"}`.