Category: Academia

I’m also struck by the extremely reductive and sweeping generalisations being made about theory. Criticism of the same would be more worthwhile if it didn’t come from such an anti-intellectual space.

Academia On Books and Publishing

Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Žižek: You Learnt It in Grad School

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date October 18, 2013

Žižek represents a comforting spot for overgrown graduate students.

Academia Chicago Chronicles Prison industrial complex Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Reporting

Trans activist Dean Spade holds court at DePaul

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date September 30, 2013

Noted trans activist, attorney, Sylvia Rivera Law Project (SRLP) founder and author Dean Spade was in Chicago presenting on his book, Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law. The event took place Sept. 24 in the DePaul Student Center.

Academia Chicago Chronicles Feminism Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Reporting

Puerto Rican activist discusses life, poems

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date May 22, 2013

Luzma Umpierre-Herrera, a leading and out lesbian Puerto Rican poet and critic, was in Chicago this past week to present on her work.

Academia Chicago Chronicles Feminism Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

On Jim Hubbard’s “United in Anger” and Jeff Edwards

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date November 29, 2012

Edwards would have been metaphorically and literally run out of Chicago if he had been anything but a white, gay man.

Academia Chicago Chronicles Queer Politics, Culture, and History

Gay historian unveils research

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 1, 2010

“a much larger story of corruption, bribery, organized crime and the political machinery of Mayor Daley.”

John D’Emilio, professor of gay history and women’s studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) , presented his latest research on Chicago’s gay history February 9 at the university’s Institute for the Humanities, where he currently holds a yearlong fellowship. Speaking to a packed room, D’Emilio gave a speech provocatively titled “Rethinking Queer History. Or, Richard Nixon, Gay Liberationist.”

Academia Chicago Chronicles Queer Politics, Culture, and History Reporting

Confab looks at queers and sex offenders

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date June 2, 2010

“What’s queer about sex offenders? Are sex offenders the new queers?” That was the provocative title of an all-day conference on sex-offender laws, hosted by the University of Chicago and the Center on Halsted and held at the Center May 27. Speakers included literary theorists, activists, artists, legal scholars and political scientists.