I loved it! It was two things I hoped it would be:
- Butler’s tweak to their concept of gender (I love these little Gender OS™️ updates we get from them every few years)
- a ‘know thy enemy’ survey of all the anti-gender movements and ideologies that make up the International Reactionary Right (like TERFs and Christian Nationalists)

And one thing I didn’t dare hope for:
- BUTLER’S CRITIQUE OF NEOLIBERALISM!! Ahhh!!!

For Butler, anti-gender ideology is an inflammatory syntax (“a way of ordering the world that absorbs and reproduces anxieties and fears about permeability, precarity, displacement, and replacement”) created by the economic destruction of neoliberalism itself. Their solution? Socialism (or, as close as Butler will get to socialism. But I’ll take it—I thought they’d be a Lib forever).

I am desperate for this new era of gender and queer theory--more intersectional because we're also including theories of economics. Because Butler is right:

“It is, then, crucial that gender politics oppose neoliberalism and other forms of capitalist devastation… [by] “stand[ing] for a radical democracy informed by socialist ideals”