Filmed in The Great Hall, The Cooper Union Great Hall on April 28, 2014 during the 2014 PEN World Voices Festival Opening Night. Judith Butler speaks of turning rage and grief into theory and reflection which is inspired by her 2006 book and was one of 8 people to speak that evening. Judith Butler is an American philosopher and gender theorist, whose work has influenced the fields of feminist, queer, and literary theory, political philosophy, and ethics. Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature and the Co-director of the Program of Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley, where she has taught since 1993. On the Discursive Limits of "Sex" challenge the sex/gender distinction and develops her theory of gender performativity Butler's conception of gender performativity has shaped the scholarship of feminist and queer studies. Butler has also been outspoken on many contemporary political issues. She has been active in ...