Sabancı University Gender and Women's Studies Forum hosted Jack Halberstam, one of the important names in "queer theory", in collaboration with the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and the Gender Club. At Karaköy Minerva Palas on Wednesday evening, May 21, 2013, Jack Halberstam gave a speech on his book "Gaga Feminism: Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal".
Jack Halberstam, in his speech, mentioned how capitalism and feminism interacted at the moment and how feminism had started to produce alternative modes of criticism, and how feminism had been transformed in the processes of interaction with innovative activism models by highlighting how the critical responses to capitalism in the twentieth century (anti-colonialism, anarchism, socialism, the multitude movement, 'undercommons', punk, critical race theory, critical ethnic studies, etc.) had transformed themselves from identitarian pursuits grounded in the histories of oppression and exploitation to new understandings of solidarity, commonality and political purpose.
