Category: On Books and Publishing

Book reviews and author interviews, as well essays on the state of publishing.

Bash Back! makes point at parade

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date July 2, 2008

Chicago’s annual Pride Parade is a popular spectacle for queer Chicagoans and their straight allies. But even its most ardent supporters often wonder if Pride, meant to commemorate Stonewall, has retained its insurgent and activist roots. This year, a new group named Bash Back! decided to reclaim some of what it feels is the original spirit of Pride: protest, critique and anti-assimilationist politics.

On Books and Publishing Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Terrance Dean’s Hiding in Hip Hop: On the Down Low in the Entertainment Industry—from Music to Hollywood

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date June 25, 2008

Does simply being out solve the problems of an industry that makes enormous profits while paying pittances to some?

Hiding in Hip Hop: On the Down Low in the Entertainment Industry--from Music to Hollywood by [Dean, Terrance]

On Books and Publishing

Blair Mastbaum’s Us Ones in Between: A Novel

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date June 25, 2008

The strange conclusion is a fitting end that may well be another beginning.

On Books and Publishing Queer Politics, Culture, and History

David Trinidad’s The Late Show: Poems

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date June 11, 2008

What can we say, after all, about relationships that are not bound by conventional notions of love but are nonetheless as intense as this, and which are denied the language of sentiment?