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.