Butler’s major contribution to this ongoing conversation about gender is an elaboration on their idea that gender is made by doing, not a thing one expresses. This notion of gender does not require that there be some true, essential core inside of a person that is expressed through gender. Although heterosexual gendering is part of the dominant culture/ideology (what Butler calls hegemony), even the gender of heterosexuals is performative. Butler’s notion of gender as performative is also attentive to how what looks natural looks like that because of what they alternately label as sedimentation, or a congealing of conventions—how we dress, gestures we make, how we walk. These actions are part of a public repertoire that has a traceable history. Butler’s vision of the new politics, in keeping with their wariness of nailing down identities and meanings, is open-ended but ultimately hopeful.