Dr. Judith Butler is an acclaimed author, gender theorist, and distinguished professor at the University of California at Berkeley. This video is so smart.

So much of what Judith shares here resonates, including:

“Many people who refuse to allow Trans people to define themselves is that they feel that their own self-definition is destabilized. The idea that we can change reality, transform reality, to be more open, inclusive, just, less violent… there’s an instability in that that’s very frightening to people who want to understand their genders as fixed. But is anybody’s gender necessary and universal, or is it a complicated emergence that happens with each of us?” —Judith Butler (10:51)

“Freedom is a struggle because there’s so much in our world that’s telling us not to be free with our bodies. And if we are seeking to love in a free way, to live and move in a free way, we actually have to struggle to claim that freedom.” —Judith Butler (11:53)

I highly recommend you check it out:

The light in me recognizes and acknowledges the light in you,
Lee