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Rainbow Lecture - Trans*: A Quick and Quirky Guide to Gender Variability

The Welles-Brown Room, Rush Rhees Library

Lecture

The 2018 Annual Rainbow Lecture will feature speaker Jack Halberstam who is Professor of English and Gender Studies at Columbia University. Professor Halberstam will present:

Trans*: A Quick and Quirky Guide to Gender Variability

Halberstam is the author of five books including: Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters (Duke UP, 1995), Female Masculinity (Duke UP, 1998), In A Queer Time and Place (NYU Press, 2005), The Queer Art of Failure (Duke UP, 2011) and Gaga Feminism: Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal (Beacon Press, 2012) and has written articles that have appeared in numerous journals, magazines and collections. Halberstam has co-edited a number of anthologies including Posthuman Bodies with Ira Livingston (Indiana University Press, 1995) and a special issue of Social Text with Jose Munoz and David Eng titled “What’s Queer About Queer Studies Now?” Jack is a popular speaker and gives lectures around the country and internationally every year. Lecture topics include: queer failure, sex and media, subcultures, visual culture, gender variance, popular film, animation. Halberstam is currently working on several projects including a book titled WILD THING on queer anarchy, performance and protest culture, the visual representation of anarchy and the intersections between animality, the human and the environment. Halberstam just published Trans* for UC Press. 

This lecture is free and open to the public. Free parking is available in Library Lot, and refreshments will be served.