[Discuss] Judith Halberstam

[Alma Jackie Salcedo]

Judith Halberstam: Notes On Failure
ACES Auditorium, 5pm, Thursday, Jan 26
(Q&A to follow on Jan 27)
Presented by the LGBTQ research cluster.
Judith Halberstam, Professor of English and Director of the Center for 
Feminist Research at USC, describes her lecture as, "A whirlwind tour of the 
productive territory of failure. We will stop along the way at obvious sites 
like 'losing,'  'inadequacy,' 'disappointment' and 'collapse,' but we will 
also visit less likely but equally important locations like 'lesbian' and 
'forgetfulness.' Failure, we may find, is a worthy alternative to the 
legacies of violent triumphalism that victory implies and it can be 
productively theorized in relation to queerness. Queer studies offer us one 
method for imagining, not some fantasy of an elsewhere but, existing 
alternatives to hegemonic systems."
She is the author of Female Masculinity;  Skins Shows:  Gothic Horror and 
the Technology of Monsters; The Drag King Book; and most recently, In A 
Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives (NYU, 2005).
http://www.egomego.com/judith/home.htm
http://www.utexas.edu/cola/cwgs/


Judith Halberstam: Q&A
Chicano Culture Room, TX Union 4.206
10:30am - Noon, Friday Jan 27
Informal discussion session with Professor Halberstam to follow up "Notes On 
Failure" lecture.
http://www.utexas.edu/cola/cwgs/events/2006/january/