Gaga Feminism: Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal

Abstract

Written for a popular audience, Halberstam discusses some interesting ideas about new forms of kinship, new ways of doing feminism ("going gaga"), protest and occupying space into the future. However while Halberstam starts off interestingly and with much potential, it never really goes into any depth with regard to new forms of femininity or new ways to regard otherwise heteronormatively read scenes. Halberstam also perhaps inadvertantly privileges certain forms of queerness over others- such as the support for polyamorous arrangements as more progressed as opposed to straight or gay marriage in a more traditional form. The ending also gets very caught up in the Occupy movement,which seems somewhat distracting from an overall argument about gaga feminism.