Atifa Zaidi

“a phenomenon that gave rise to my first critical insight into the subtle ruse of power: the prevailing law threatened one with trouble, all to keep one out of trouble. Hence, I concluded that trouble is inevitable and the task, how best to make it, what best way to be in it.”
― Judith Butler, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

“If the immutable character of sex is contested, perhaps this construct called ‘sex’ is as culturally constructed as gender; indeed, perhaps it was always already gender, with the consequence that the distinction between sex and gender turns out to be no distinction at all.”
― Judith Butler, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

“The exclusion of those who fail to conform to unspoken normative requirements of the subject.”
― Judith Butler, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

“...laughter emerges in the realization that all along the original was derived.”
― Judith Butler, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity