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Yasmin's Media Appearances

“Scabs” Is Mentioned in The Nation’s Julia Wong Column

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date April 7, 2014

Thanks to Julia Wong, for mentioning and discussing my earlier "Scabs: Academics and Others Who Write for Free," in her April 7, The Nation column. Her piece is titled,

Film, Art, Television, and Media On Books and Publishing

Scabs and the Seduction of Neoliberalism

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date March 19, 2014

If you’re going to be a working writer or any kind of “creative professional,” demand the same kind of respect you would give to someone who fixes your plumbing.

On Books and Publishing

Scabs: Academics and Others Who Write for Free

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date March 11, 2014

Excerpt: Those who write for free or very little simply because they can afford to are scabs.

Tags Scabs, Writers

Academia Capitalism, Class, Inequality Film, Art, Television, and Media Labour On Books and Publishing

On Writers as Scabs, Whores, and Interns, And the Jacobin Problem

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date December 11, 2013

Left publishing will increasingly be filled with lots of timid writing that doesn’t require the hard skills that experienced writers might bring to their work.

Tags Jacobin, Left Publishing

Capitalism, Class, Inequality On Books and Publishing

On Plagiarism

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date February 15, 2024

Feminism Film, Art, Television, and Media Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Hannah Gadsby, Then and Now

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date June 10, 2023

Capitalism, Class, Inequality On Books and Publishing

What Really Happened at Current Affairs?

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date March 27, 2023

“More Mean Girls than Norma Rae.”

Feminism On Books and Publishing

“Cat Person” Will Never Die

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date July 20, 2021

Excerpt: Sometimes you create a monster and are proud of the havoc it wreaks upon the world. Sometimes you create a monster and watch it do its thing and then realise that it has just turned around and is about to devour you.

Capitalism, Class, Inequality On Books and Publishing

The Publishing World Is Like Fyre Fest

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date June 3, 2021

Excerpt: It’s a lifestyle many writers yearn for: unhurried, complacent, lots of manufactured insouciance, and lots of money to write about it all.

On Books and Publishing

Buy That Book!

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date February 17, 2021

You will always have that experience, and it will always be for the better.