“My version of feminist, queer, trans-affirmative politics is not about policing. I don’t think we should become the police. I’m afraid of the police.”
–
Gender Trouble (1990) author
Judith Butler, explaining that policing language is not the answer to anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric. “I think a lot of people feel that the world is out of control, and one place where they can exercise some control is language,” she says of simmering global tensions around gender and identity.
