Writer, Academic, Activist, Commentator

Category: On Books and Publishing

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

Review of Trash Animals

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date November 18, 2013

What makes a trash animal?

Capitalism, Class, Inequality On Books and Publishing Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Margot Weiss talks BDSM and sexuality

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date October 30, 2013

“I’ll leave this with Patrick Califia’s words: ‘I do not believe that we can fuck our way to freedom.'”

Capitalism, Class, Inequality On Books and Publishing Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

No More City on a Hill: Interview with Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date October 23, 2013

Because it’s when you really believe in people, that’s when they can really let you down.

Academia On Books and Publishing

On Paul de Man

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date October 21, 2013

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.

Hate Crime Legislation On Books and Publishing Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Review of Stephen Jimenez’s new book, The Book of Matt

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date October 16, 2013

In the annals of vengeance disguised as justice, the point, it seemed, was not to condemn the murders committed by the state, but to celebrate innocence.

On Books and Publishing Queer Politics, Culture, and History

Two Pieces on Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date October 6, 2013

“We were the beginning of the end and we didn’t know what to do because we’d just found the beginning.”

On Books and Publishing Queer Politics, Culture, and History

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore talks Faggotry, San Francisco

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date October 2, 2013

“With this book, I want to reimagine memoir as an active process of remembering, an investigation, an instigation—stylistically and structurally, as well as politically and intimately.“

Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?: Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Conform by [Sycamore, Mattilda Bernstein]

On Books and Publishing Queer Politics, Culture, and History

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore’s The End of San Francisco

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date September 13, 2013

“We were the beginning of the end and we didn’t know what to do because we’d just found the beginning.”

Chicago Chronicles On Books and Publishing Queer Politics, Culture, and History Reporting

Sukie de la Croix’s Chicago Whispers book now available

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date June 13, 2013

St. Sukie de la Croix has been a Chicago fixture since the English native moved to this city in1991. He is a former writer for Windy City Times, has been a reporter and columnist for several publications, and is often seen at LGBTQ events, recording people and speeches with his camera and notebook. He currently writes for ChicagoPride.