Early on in “The Drama,” Charlie (Robert Pattinson) and Emma (Zendaya) are practicing for the first dance at their wedding. They’re doing one of those old-timey, heavily choreographed routines. You ...

Boston College is not immune to performative culture. From our conversations with others to how we present ourselves, behavior that prioritizes image over authenticity is ingrained in our day-to-day ...

A concept that has significantly influenced gender theory, gender performativity enables a more fluid understanding of gender by challenging fixed notions of identity. Poststructuralist scholar Judith ...

Judith Butler talks gender, performativity, and wanting to be a clown : Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! This week, Judith Butler joins panelists Roy Blount, Jr., Maz Jobrani, and Faith Salie to talk about ...

In recent discussions online, people have explored the idea of “performativity.” Whether it be examples like the performative male or performative allyship, it normally refers to someone performing ...

The Lede Reporting and commentary on what you need to know today. This way of perceiving social reality—and particularly a person’s reading life—may seem inane, even deranged. But performative reading ...

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Grade hyperinflation is a phenomenon that poses a threat to the value and quality of educational achievement among students not only in basic education but also became prevalent among higher learning ...

ANALYSIS: Yet theater department does land acknowledgments, offers free tickets to Natives A University of Portland theater featured Native American playwright Larissa FastHorse’s “The Thanksgiving ...

It would be difficult to overstate the importance of the American philosopher and gender theorist Judith Butler, both for intellectuals and for queer communities. There are scholarly books, university ...