Judith Butler

Identity is not a substance but a process.

Performative acts are forms of authoritative speech.

The subject is produced by the power it opposes.

To narrate oneself is to become accountable to others.

Vulnerability is the basis of sociality.

The frame decides what we can see and what we cannot.

Lives are differentially protected and valued.

The performative is not a singular act but a stylized repetition.

Subjection is the condition of possibility for agency.

Censorship is productive; it generates the speech it prohibits.

The ethical demand precedes the subject.

Precarity is a shared condition.

To assemble is to enact a right to appear.

The body is a site of political contestation.

Gender is not a noun but a verb.

Matter is not given but materialized through discourse.

Melancholia is the unfinished process of grieving.

The I is always in relation to the Thou.

Violence is the denial of the other's vulnerability.

The political is the sphere of appearance.