Who's Afraid of Gender? Judith Butler and Jack Halberstam in Conversation

In 1990, Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity helped revolutionize how we understand sexuality, gender, and the performative dimensions of identity. In the decades since, Butler has become one of our most trenchant and iconic public intellectuals—a thinker who has made countless timely and urgent interventions on questions of violence and peace, language and war, and precarity and cohabitation. Now, in Who’s Afraid of Gender? (2024), Butler returns to the topic that made their name, to illuminate how “anti-gender ideology movements” have become central to reactionary politics and rising authoritarianism worldwide. In a special launch event, co-presented by Pioneer Works and Dia Art Foundation, Jack Halberstam joined Judith Butler on stage at Dia Chelsea to discuss their new book, what it’s like to be burned in effigy, and so much more. This program is part of PW Broadcast's Author Talks, a series highlighting authors and thinkers across disciplines. Subscribe to Pioneer Works:    / pioneerworksvideo   Read more on the Pioneer Works Broadcast: https://pioneerworks.org/broadcast Video by Max Tannone © 2024 Pioneer Works, Footage courtesy of Dia Art Foundation This project is supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Program in Public Understanding of Science and Technology, bridging the two cultures of science and the arts.