Of course, I want legal protections for certain kinds of freedoms, but if the version of freedom produced by the idea of legal protection becomes all we think of freedom, then surely we are constrained in some unacceptable ways. It is important to point out that various forms of gender regulation and social hierarchy and exclusion work through domains of power that are not reducible to law, but this also means that the forms of resistance and claims to freedom we make cannot be fully conceptualized within the rubric of law. This is one way to insist that the claims of a radical social movement must exceed those of legal reforms, even if those legal reforms are sometimes useful for that movement.
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Judith Butler
On Anarchism: An Interview with Judith Butler
THIS ENTIRE INTERVIEW.
