6/6 parts of a French documentary on Judith Butler on YouTube. If, like me, you’ve forgotten all of your college French, don’t worry, it’s mostly Judy talking in her native tongue with Francais subtitles. Or is it Francaise subtitles? There is a JB gender joke in there somewhere. I can’t tell you how uncomfortable and embarrassed I got around the 5:50 mark. Also, I am going to be up all night watching this now.
i didnt think i could love judith butler any more, but now that i know she is a jew from cleveland, which is kind of like being a jew from buffalo, i feel even more bonded than i did when i wrote my gender-trouble-heavy thesis in 1997.
so thanks to ada for finding this. my favorite part is when she says, “ive never found a place I don’t think ill ever find a place. if my thinking about this is productive at all…it is because I am always slightly disidentified from any given position. i don’t belong in any established category. but im not someone who happily transcends them all. im not in favor of happy transcendence.”
i also like it when she says that the berkeley kids celebrating no pants day are “not so revolutionary.” so true.
