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2011 Mary Flexner Lecturer: Judith Butler

September 2, 2011
by Mary Zaborskis
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Can We Have Gendered Means Without Gendered Ends?

In Jose Esteban Muñoz’s Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity, he describes political philosopher Giorgio Agamben’s theory of gesture—that is, action and that which constitutes performance—as “means without ends” (91). In other words, gesture is something that … Continue reading

September 2, 2011
by Steph Herold
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Is “coming out” a useful frame to reduce abortion stigma?

Almost a year ago, I launched a campaign on twitter called #ihadanabortion.  I asked women who were comfortable doing so to “come out” about their abortion experience using the hashtag to aggregate all the responses.  I hoped that this would … Continue reading