Category: Capitalism, Class, Inequality

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.

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Feminism Politics

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.

WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 10, 2016: Illustration of presidential campaign buttons of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump running for the president's office.

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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.”

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Feminism Film, Art, Television, and Media Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

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.

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Feminism Film, Art, Television, and Media Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

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.

Capitalism, Class, Inequality On Books and Publishing

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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Capitalism, Class, Inequality Labour

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.

Capitalism, Class, Inequality On Books and Publishing

The Irony of Writing About Poverty On Medium

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date February 24, 2016

Excerpt: What is it about writing that we don’t see it as something that deserves compensation as labour? And why do we think that it’s okay to pay millionaires and billionaires with our labor instead of demanding that they pay us?

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How Gay Money Became Gay Wealth: A Fable

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date January 27, 2016

Excerpt: This is not a woman who was hit hard by the taxes but, rather, someone angry that she had to pay them in the first place.

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Prison industrial complex

America’s Prison Problem Is Too Complicated for Mark Zuckerberg

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date October 26, 2015

Zuckerberg’s power and influence provides expensive cover for the brutality that the prison-industrial complex inflicts upon its inhabitants…