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Sex Out Loud with Tristan Taormino

Sex Out Loud with Tristan Taormino

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September 28th 2012: J. Jack Halberstam on Gender in Pop Culture, the Occupy Movement, and Gaga Feminism

USC Professor and Cultural Critic J. Jack Halberstam joins Tristan for a discussion as part of her "Live in Los Angeles" series, recorded in studio in LA. They'll about Halberstam's new book Gaga Feminism: Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal and how the well-renowned academic Halberstam brings sex and gender theory to a mass audience. Hear Halberstam riff on the lesbian baby boom, the divide between academics and activists, and gender representations in pop culture from Lady Gaga to Bridesmaids. Plus, Halberstam will confess how the Occupy Movement informed and inspired this book, how reproduct

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Jack Halberstam

Jack Halberstam is Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, Gender Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. Halberstam is the author of five books including: 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 is currently working on several projects including a book on Fascism and (homo)sexuality.
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