Judith Butler

Episode 227: Disorienting Cisgender (with Perry Zurn)

July 3, 2026 HBS Hosts Ethics, Gender/Sex/LGBTQI Concerns, Guest Episodes, HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Hotel Bar Sessions (Season 16), Politics, Race and Racism 0 Comments

The word everyone’s fighting about has a history almost no one knows.

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Episode 210: Marilyn Frye’s “Oppression”

December 26, 2025 HBS Hosts Deep Dives, Ethics, Gender/Sex/LGBTQI Concerns, HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Hotel Bar Sessions (Season 14), Politics, Race and Racism 0 Comments

How to mark the distinction between being “inconvenienced” and being oppressed.

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Episode 189: The War on “Radical Ideology”

July 4, 2025 HBS Hosts Ethics, Gender/Sex/LGBTQI Concerns, HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Hotel Bar Sessions (Season 13), Politics, Professional Philosophy / Higher Ed, Race and Racism 0 Comments

Radical for whom?

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Episode 188: Sovereignty

June 27, 2025 HBS Hosts HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Hotel Bar Sessions (Season 13) 0 Comments

Who or what rules the world today? And by what right?

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Episode 185: Private Parts

June 6, 2025 HBS Hosts Ethics, Gender/Sex/LGBTQI Concerns, HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Hotel Bar Sessions (Season 13), Politics, Pop Culture, Race and Racism 0 Comments

How can we talk, or think, about “private parts” in a philosophical way?

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Episode 183: Cringe

May 23, 2025 HBS Hosts Ethics, HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Hotel Bar Sessions (Season 13), Politics, Pop Culture, Professional Philosophy / Higher Ed 0 Comments

This is gonna be awkward.

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Episode 178: Totalitarianism (with Peg Birmingham)

April 4, 2025 HBS Hosts Ethics, Gender/Sex/LGBTQI Concerns, Guest Episodes, Hotel Bar Podcast (Season 12), HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Politics, Race and Racism 0 Comments

Can democracy be saved from totalitarianism?

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Episode 177: El roto, Lo huachafo, Lo jodido (with Carlos Amador)

March 28, 2025 HBS Hosts Ethics, Gender/Sex/LGBTQI Concerns, Guest Episodes, Hotel Bar Podcast (Season 12), HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Politics, Pop Culture, Race and Racism 0 Comments

Carlos Amador on Latin American aesthetics, precarity, and what it means to be completely f*cked.

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Episode 174: Decorum

March 7, 2025 HBS Hosts Ethics, Gender/Sex/LGBTQI Concerns, Hotel Bar Podcast (Season 12), HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Politics, Professional Philosophy / Higher Ed, Race and Racism 0 Comments

When does decorum keep us civil—and when does it keep us silent?

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Episode 172: Ambiguity

February 21, 2025 HBS Hosts Ethics, Gender/Sex/LGBTQI Concerns, Hotel Bar Podcast (Season 12), HOTEL BAR SESSIONS, Politics, Race and Racism 0 Comments

When nothing is clear, how do we decide?

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