Emily
Emily
Sep 4, 2018 · 1 min read

i’d agree with the previous response and add that these people can have an effect on policy, but it isn’t linear and it isn’t fast. Some of the ideas that Butler raised in Gender Trouble have found their way into mainstream discussion about what it means to be feminist, female, queer, and so on. So in that sense, sometimes these people’s ideas can have a real impact. In my field, the Middle Ages, a lot of people are talking about how to respond to the increase in Nazi and White Supremacist co-opting of the Middle Ages as some kind of pure, white, straight, Christian, male utopia. (It so wasn’t.) So, there again, you have people combating *ideas* more than policy.

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