Category: Capitalism, Class, Inequality

Choose Your Elite: Edith Windsor, Hillary Clinton, or Donald Trump

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date October 6, 2016

Excerpt: Only the privileged get to jump on lifeboats to safety leaving everyone else to drown in seas of debt and poverty.

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“Racism and the American Pit Bull” My Review of Pit Bull: The Battle over an American Icon

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date September 19, 2016

In the tautology established around pit bulls, all pit bulls are dangerous dogs and all dangerous dogs are pit bulls.

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Whose Gay History?: Review of Queer Clout

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 25, 2016

Segregation in this city is not some genteel agreement between the races and ethnicities to quietly live away from each other.

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My New QED Piece on Queer Theory and the Neoliberal University: We Were There, We Are Here, Where Are We?

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 10, 2016

We are here, we were there. We were never going shopping.

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On the Current Paranoia about Trump vs. Clinton

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date July 29, 2016

I think those who criticise critics of HRC for possibly enabling a Trump victory are over-invested in presidential politics and elections to the extent they don’t see how work actually needs to happen in other arenas and levels.

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“The Political Is Political”: I’m Profiled in Salvage

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date July 25, 2016

“But, as compelling and scandalising as her campaigning around gay marriage with Against Equality is, it is far from the only place she’s causing a stir.”

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Suey Park and the Afterlife of Twitter

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date April 4, 2016

Excerpt: Twitter is not merely a symptom of a public sphere but a platform that is bound up with the primary dictate of neoliberalism: Make yourself or die.

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Suey Park: Images

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date April 3, 2016

This document is a collection of images referenced in “Suey Park and the Afterlife of Twitter.” It will be constantly updated with more as the series progresses.

All images are screencaps from public Instagram and Twitter accounts.

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I’m a Freelance Writer. I Refuse to Work for Free.

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date February 26, 2016

You’re not doing it for the money, but you’re making it impossible for me to earn a living.

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How to Be Poor

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date February 25, 2016

Excerpt: When we berate the poor for their “waste” or, for that matter, the rich for their “excess,” we are simply engaging in personalised narratives that do nothing to explain or even reveal the larger systems of power at work.