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INTERVIEWS
Judith
Butler
It was a strange, busy day when the phone rang and I heard Athina
tell me: “Your interview with Judith Butler is scheduled for tomorrow
at 17.00 at the hotel Caravel. She will be expecting you, she won’t
have a lot of time I’ll have to pick her up for her lecture at Panteio
University. “ I said ok, hung up the phone and called my friend Maria,
who had informed me in the first place that Judith would be coming
to Athens. I screamed on the phone “Maria tomorrow is the interview
with Judith” but she was busy and was kind of angry with me. Then I
thought of Katerina but she didn’t have the time either. I must
confess that the decision to go by myself was kind of hard. The very
idea of interviewing Judith was an amazing feat. I had so many things
to tell her…but by myself?
I met her on the entrance of the hotel where she was posing for a
photographer. I immediately felt an intimacy, she was butch just like
me, she was cool and comfortable with the camera. She glowed and
her glow cast my fears and anxiety aside. We sat down inside in the
restaurant, she ordered green tea and I ordered a diet coke. She had
swam earlier in the swimming pool, she loves to swim, that’s why she
chose that hotel because of the swimming pool. And she loves yoga
as well! I learned about that later on of course…
Maria Cyber: When you talk about gender and
especially when you started writing Gender Trouble, did
you do it because you had questions concerning your
own gender?
Thank you