The genome is the starting point for a performance we enact over a lifetime, not a blueprint we've got to follow.
8 months ago

Performativity describes when an economic model comes to construct the reality it is meant to describe, instead of merely describing it.
12 months ago

Performative in this context is used to mean the politics of spectacle: unserious, showy, emotive, bereft of ideas or higher purpose.
9 months ago

It would be difficult to overstate the importance of the American philosopher and gender theorist Judith Butler, both for intellectuals and...
23 months ago

The third week of student encampment at the University of Ottawa saw several meetings between student organizers, INSAF (translation: justice, equity) and the...
4 months ago

Performative allyship has become a big concern within the race equality agenda, so much so that Black employees have begun to call out...
46 months ago

The author of the ground-breaking book Gender Trouble says we should not be surprised when the category of women expands to include trans women.
37 months ago

This case study of two beginning teachers explores the ways these teachers navigated the pressures of institutional performativity.
52 months ago

Bantone's work—comprising sculpture, painting, and photography—is interested in speculations around what radical Black aesthetic forms that are...
13 months ago

Breaking, or breakdancing, rules state that two competitors must compete against each other in a one-on-one battle, judged by three or more...
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