Jack Halberstam Quotes

#1. Detente is a readiness to resolve differences and conflicts not by force, not by threats and sabre-rattling, but by peaceful means, at the conference table.

Leonid Brezhnev

#2. Social change really cannot happen unless people are willing to take a risk, and they were. And I was so moved by that, and of course by the way that he spoke, that made a huge dent in my belief system and my spirit.

Joan Baez

#3. I liked this about Drew: always to the point when talking about business, but always philosophical when talking about life. Attending his birthday party had been a priority since I met him four years ago

Penny Reid

#4. Being taken seriously means missing out on the chance to be frivolous, promiscuous, and irrelevant. The desire to be taken seriously is precisely what compels people to follow the tried and true paths of knowledge production around which I would like to map a few detours.

J. Jack Halberstam

#5. Hip-hop is a perfect mix between poetry and boxing.

Jay-Z

#6. Because Augustus was not a hiker, but a walker of life

Miguel De Unamuno

#7. people were often surprised to learn that game wardens were in fact real police officers, commissioned with the power to enforce any state law, not just hunting and fishing regulations.

Steve Brewer

#8. This is a story of art without markets, drama without a script, narrative without progress. The queer art of failure turns on the impossible, the improbable, the unlikely, and the unremarkable. It quietly loses, and in losing it imagines other goals for life, for love, for art, and for being.

J. Jack Halberstam

#9. I could lose the run of myself inside a woman like you, Alexis." He paused before muttering under his breath, almost absently, "And I fear if I made you my queen, I could no longer be a king.

L. H. Cosway

#10. I like talky scenes.

Martin Freeman

#11. But why should women and queer people learn to forget? Generational logic underpins our investments in the dialectic of memory and forgetting;

J. Jack Halberstam

#12. We need to think about sex and gender in a more ecological kind of framework, understanding that changes in one environment inevitably impact changes in other environments. Gender here might be thought of more as a climate or ecosystem and less as an identity or discrete bodily location.

J. Jack Halberstam

#13. If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the Upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word "fearlessness."

Swami Vivekananda

#14. Jeremiah has to lament that there are as many altars as towns in Judah.

Julius Wellhausen

#15. To begin an ethnographic project with a goal, with an object of research and a set of presumptions, is already to stymie the process of discovery; it blocks one's ability to learn something new that exceed the frameworks with which one enters.

J. Jack Halberstam

#16. Jarecki's 'Reagan' is a compellingly watchable and appropriately conflicted portrait ... artfully nuanced and intellectually curious.

Hank Stuever

#17. No one ever understood disaster until it came.

Josephine Herbst

#18. There is no safe level of exposure to ionizing radiation, and the search for quantifying such a safe level is in vain.

Rosalie Bertell

#19. We seem to assume that no one really wants to be a girl or a woman, and therefore some people, say female-bodied people, must be forced into these abject genders

J. Jack Halberstam

#20. To tell a ghost story means being willing to be haunted.

Judith "Jack" Halberstam