Judith Butler

To say that gender is performative is a little different because for something to be performative means that it produces a series of effects. We act and walk and speak and talk in ways that consolidate an impression of being a man or being a woman.

American Philosopher

Laura Wade

I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was... appalling... always putting on little shows. I was rather a shy child, not a natural performer, but there was a performative edge to everything I did.

British Playwright

Franchesca Ramsey

The truth is that the performative nature of social media can turn even the simplest conversations into a WWE style cage match with emojis and Internet slang taking the place of pratfalls and over the top costumes.

American Comedian

Caroline Calloway

It's not that I don't experience absolute sadness, which is very unentertaining, but I think - when I'm being really honest about myself - I think there's, like, a really performative streak in my personality.

American Celebrity

Darin Strauss

It's a very performative thing, grief. As with so much in modern life, I think there's a whole performative layer to what we do because we feel like there's a private TV show viewing our lives.

American Writer

Irvine Welsh

I wanted to capture the excitement of house music, almost like a four-four beat, and the best way to do that was to use a language that was rhythmic and performative.

Scottish Novelist

Gayle Rankin

There's a misconception about wrestling, that it's really fake, but it's real, and you can really get hurt, even though a lot of it is performative.

Scottish Actress

Stella Young

For me, in some ways, my whole life is a bit performative and always has been - because I'm stared at and looked at everywhere I go.

Australian Comedian

King Princess

When I do makeup, it's performative. I don't really wear makeup, but I use it as a tool to talk about gender and sexuality.

American Musician

Zoe Lister-Jones

Most actors and actresses are performative as people.

American Actress

Understand 'performative' as an action done through words, like making a promise.

Action by Speaking

Recognize that performative statements depend on context to be effective, like a wedding vow.

Context Sensitive

Know that performative language can have social power, initiating or changing relationships.

Social Force

Realize 'performative' can describe actions as a form of social or political expression.

Expressive Actions

Know that in sociology, 'performative' might not always align with genuine feelings.

Beyond Authenticity

Performative actions in sociology are done to deliver a specific social message.

Messaging Intent

'Performative' in philosophy often means doing something to make a point clearly seen.

Demonstration

Performative philosophy emphasizes action with intention to showcase an ideal.

Intentional Display

 instead what we have here are the folkloric performative ritual traditions of a community reenacting itself in the context of technology that they were involved in designing ultimately why should we care about all of this well for me we live in a world where there is a profound loss of diversity in

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 as two separate parts of constatives and performatives. Constatives are sentences that describe something as true or false, and performatives are sentences that denote an action. In other words, a constative is, and a performative does. To help us distinguish these two parts of speech,

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 and as highly complex performative art installations. The sounds that we envision through sound genetics allow us not only to celebrate this complexity but also to make the world a more elegant and safe space.

Performative

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