Category: Capitalism, Class, Inequality

Abortive Reasoning: What’s Wrong with the Reproductive Rights Debate

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date June 1, 2017

The tyranny of experience in abortion rights discourse has potentially disastrous consequences.

vintage photo frightened woman from True Romance

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If You Think You’re a Nail, Everything Looks Like a Hammer

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date May 26, 2017

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Bitches of Capitalism: My Speech on International Working Women’s Day, March 8

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date March 17, 2017

I was invited by the Chicago Socialist Party to speak about and on International Working Women’s Day, March 8. My thanks to all the organisers, and to the many amazing people who showed up — and stayed — through all my words and those of my co-presenters, Tobita Chow, Erica Nanton, Red Schulte, Zerlina Smith, and Rehmah Sufi.* You can watch a video here; below is the text of the speech.

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Saints Alive!: The Left Wags Its Finger, And Nothing Changes

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date February 27, 2017

If we frame political questions in terms of whether or not we can like each other or the ones we claim to fight for, and whether or not we’re being really, really nice to each other, our struggles are doomed and, frankly, we deserve to lose.

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Bourgeois Feminist Bullshit: The Rebecca Traister View of Gender and the World

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date February 21, 2017

Single status is now no longer a blight upon the land but a set of Very Useful Functions that keep the economy running smoothly.

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Should You March Against Trump?

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date January 19, 2017

To put it bluntly: Everything you are marching to prevent, dear marchers, has already come to pass.

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Killing You Softly with Her Dreams: Arianna Huffington’s War on Sleep

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date January 5, 2017

“I cried to dream again.”

—Caliban, The Tempest

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Rights Make Might: The Dystopian Undertow of Hillary Clinton’s Elite Feminism

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date December 1, 2016

Liberal feminism is, by and large, also a carceral feminism: wedded to the idea that the only way to protect and preserve the rights of women is to turn to the prison–industrial complex as the final enforcer of gender justice.