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Join us as we discuss one of the worst-written books we've had to cover: Judith Butler's Gender Trouble. It is considered a landmark text of the so-called third wave of feminism, but is it all it's cracked up to be? Given that it kicked off queer theory, it certainly got a few things wrong. Join us as we walk through the good, the bad, and the paradigm-shifting aspects of Judith Butler's seminal work.

Our companion episode on Patreon is on Monique Wittig!

TERF or Transfeminist Avant la Lettre? That is the title of a paper on Monique Wittig that is almost certainly clickbait. We discuss a paper by Blase A. Provitola examining Monique Wittig's work and the appropriations of it by scholars, feminists, and activists with very different politics, asking important questions such as "why is everyone so bad at reading" and "how badly can Talia mispronounce French words".

We actually have a fairly extensive library of Patreon episodes by now. You can get early access to our next episode (on The Beauty Myth, out soon) as well as Patreon-exclusive episodes on:

The Genderbread Person,

Jack Halberstam discussing how toilets are bourgeois,

Kadji Amin's fairly controversial paper We Are All Non-Binary,

[Emma Zakharuk:] Yeah, and accusing women of basically, in feminism and otherwise, of perpetuating patriarchy by notion of being women or affirmatively stating that they are women. It feels a little self-interested, let's just say.

[Talia Bhatt:] Imagine a Marxism that says that you reinforce capitalism by agreeing to work for a wage. Imagine a Marxism that always says we must abolish the working class instead of saying we need to abolish the bourgeoisie. Imagine a system, a discipline, a theory of liberation that fails to name the oppressor at any turn. And I don't give a fuck what your petty, pathetic, insecure reasons for shying away from this is, you are all fucking wrong, and I do not want to hear "abolish womanhood" out of a single one of your mouths unless, until you have said "abolish manhood" a hundred times first.

If you think transmascs treat trans women poorly on here, you arent insane. It was by design.