Judith Butler talks gender, performativity, and wanting to be a clown : Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! This week, Judith Butler joins panelists Roy Blount, Jr., Maz Jobrani, and Faith Salie to talk about ...

ANALYSIS: Yet theater department does land acknowledgments, offers free tickets to Natives A University of Portland theater featured Native American playwright Larissa FastHorse’s “The Thanksgiving ...

In recent discussions online, people have explored the idea of “performativity.” Whether it be examples like the performative male or performative allyship, it normally refers to someone performing ...

A concept that has significantly influenced gender theory, gender performativity enables a more fluid understanding of gender by challenging fixed notions of identity. Poststructuralist scholar Judith ...

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The concept of performativity first emerged in the United States with the philosophy of language and speech act theory in the 1950s. It has since formed a central point of discussion among areas of ...

Pondering women's rights in preparation for the look-alike contest. Photo by Jordan Montero. What does a “performative male” look like? That’s what hundreds of attendees crowded into Alamo Square Park ...

Performativity as a concept was first developed by the philosopher of language John L. Austin to define the capability of language as a mode of action and not just as a mode of description. It ran ...