Jack Halberstam is the David Feinson Professor of The Humanities at Columbia University. Halberstam is the author of seven books including, most recently, Anarchitecture After Everything: A Trans Manifesto (MIT Press). Halberstam was the subject of a short film titled “So We Moved” by Adam Pendleton in 2022 and he was named a Guggenheim Fellow in 2024.
Jack Halberstam
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“My Starting Point Was Wrong”: Talking with Gil Hochberg about Writing, Mental Illness and Queer Survival
“He was ill independently of course; but nationally, a psychotic illness was brewing.”
The Big Picture: “The Parliament of Bodies”
Since the 1980s and the AIDS crisis, queer communities have fought back against homophobia and transphobia using art and camp cultural production, alongside more conventional forms of political activism. In our present moment of global economic and environmental crisis, we seek new forms of intervention, new articulations of the political project, new ways of finding […]
