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Connections & Perspectives 2- Week 30

  Semester  B :  Week 26 Student:  Tai Ser Yeet (22064351) Programme:  BA (Hons) Digital Media Design Task:  Week 30's Class Task WEEK 30 Chosen Scholar:   Judith Butler Judith Butler is a philosopher, a political activist, and one of the leading theorists in gender studies. Butler’s most well-known book “Gender Trouble” (1990), explores if gender is assigned to us at birth or if we simply perform one based on the values we have learned. She concentrates primarily on feminism, queer, and gender-related issues.  Additional Information About Judith Butler One lesser-known fact about Judith Butler is her involvement in theater and performance art. Before gaining prominence as a philosopher and gender theorist, Butler studied and participated in avant-garde theater and performance. Her interest in performance art influenced her understanding of gender as performative, a concept she later developed in her seminal work "Gender Trouble." Butler's backgro...