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RantJack Halberstam gobbledygook
I can't believe a public institution is funding this absolute drivel. This writing is a perfect example of saying nothing at all, and saying nothing in the worst prose imaginable to boot. It's most of the entire abstract for the talk and it's a run on sentence. It's truly a wonder that otherwise sensible, educated people are willing to pretend this is not only sensible and good, but incisive and groundbreaking thought.
"Today, I am going to lay out some ideas that build on many different aesthetic performances and practices involving queer and trans bodies that search for and produce new vocabularies for discussing transness and new deployments of transness for the project of dismantling world and worldedness as concepts that hold current political realities in place."