The latest issue of Weekend Reads, the supplement of The Chronicle of Higher Education, includes an episode of College Matters, the publication’s podcast, with Judith Butler.

In the podcast, Butler gives a brief synopsis of their groundbreaking characterization of gender as performative and its impact on gender studies and queer theory, and then goes on to discuss state-sanctioned transphobia in the United States and the United Kingdom; civil rights and gender; sports and bathrooms; transphobia as an indictment of heterosexuality; and more.

Here is The Chronicle’s blurb about the podcast with Butler:

In states across the country, conservative lawmakers and university governing boards are purging what they describe as gender ideology from college campuses. As part of a larger backlash against diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, several universities have in recent years shut down women’s- and gender-studies programs and closed LGBTQ-focused campus spaces. These developments are particularly worrying to Judith Butler, a pioneer of queer theory whose 1990 book, Gender Trouble, is considered a seminal work of the field. But what does Butler, a distinguished professor in the Graduate School at the University of California at Berkeley, have to say to the increasingly vocal critics of the discipline they helped to popularize? Listen wherever you get your podcasts.

[I have not found a transcript for the podcast though, given the ADA, one should be available somewhere. If you find the transcript, please let me know.]