Judith Butler
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Judith Butler is an American feminist, queer philosopher, and gender studies scholar whose work has influenced political philosophy, ethics, psychoanalysis, and the fields of feminist and queer theory
Butler in 2012
São Paulo, Brazil. An Inside Higher Ed article notes that before a democracy conference in Brazil "Butler was burned in effigy as police kept groups of protesters – for and against Butler – apart. A pink bra was attached to the figure that was burned". Some protesters "held crosses and Brazilian flags in the air".
Butler receives the Theodor W. Adorno Award in 2012.
Sign at São Paulo with the alleged "sonho" (dream) of Judith Butler: "destruir identidade sexual dos seus filhos", which can be loosely translated as [Butler's dream is to] destroy sexual identity of your children
Simone de Beauvoir
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Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir was a French existentialist philosopher, writer, social theorist, and feminist activist. Though she did not consider herself a philosopher, nor was sh
Beauvoir in 1967
Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir at the Balzac Memorial
Antonio Núñez Jiménez, Beauvoir, Sartre and Che Guevara in Cuba, 1960.
Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser, Beauvoir, Sartre and Claude Lanzmann in Cairo, 1967.