Editing Jack Halberstam

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| picture=Jack_Halberstam_01.jpg
| caption=Halberstam presenting a talk in 2011.
| date_birth=December 15, 1961
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| nationality=American
| pronouns=[[he/him]], [[she/her]]
| gender="my gender ambiguity [...] has become a kind of identity for me."<ref name="OnPronouns">{{Cite web |title=On Pronouns |author=Halberstam, Jack |work=jackhalberstam.com |date=3 September 2012 |access-date=20 August 2020 |url= http://www.jackhalberstam.com/on-pronouns/}}</ref>
| occupation=professor and author
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'''Jack Halberstam''', also known as '''Judith Halberstam''', is a tenured Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature and the Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Columbia University. Prior to this appointment in 2017, Halberstam was a Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, Gender Studies, and Comparative Literature and the Director of The Center for Feminist Research at University of Southern California (USC). Halberstam was the Associate Professor in the Department of Literature at the University of California at San Diego before working at USC. Halberstam is a gender theorist, queer theorist, and author.

Halberstam lectures in the United States and internationally on queer failure, sex and media, subcultures, visual culture, [[gender variance]], popular film and animation. Focusing on the topic of [[tomboy]]s and female [[masculinity]] for his writings, his 1998 book ''Female Masculinity'' discussed a common by-product of [[Gender binary|gender binarism]], termed "the bathroom problem" with outlining the dangerous and awkward dilemma of a perceived gender deviant's justification of presence in a gender-policed zone, such as a [[Public restrooms|public bathroom]], and the identity implications of "passing" therein.

Halberstam accepts "he/him" and "she/her" pronouns, and the name "Judith" or "Jude" in addition to "Jack".<ref name="Sexsmith">{{Cite web |title=Jack Halberstam: Queers Create Better Models of Success |last=Sexsmith |first=Sinclair |authorlink=Sinclair Sexsmith |work=Lambda Literary |date=1 February 2012 |access-date=20 August 2020 |url= https://www.lambdaliterary.org/2012/02/jack-halberstam-queers-create-better-models-of-success/}}</ref>

Halberstam is also Jewish.<ref name="Aviv">{{Cite web |title=Twice Blessed: Jewish and Gay in the 21st Century |last=Aviv |first=Caryn |work=My Jewish Learning |date= |access-date=29 August 2020 |url= https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/twice-blessed-jewish-and-gay-in-the-21st-century/ }}</ref>

==Books published==
*''Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters'' - 1995
*''Female Masculinity'' - 1998
*''The [[Drag]] King Book'' - 1999, with co-author [[Del LaGrace Volcano]]
*''In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives'' - 2005
*''The Queer Art of Failure'' - 2011
*''Gaga [[Feminism]]'' - 2012
*''Trans*: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variability'' - 2018

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