Category: Capitalism, Class, Inequality

The problem with Fixing Wall Street Is It Can’t Be Fixed

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date October 16, 2015

More than ever in the history of capitalism, capital’s force is most evident in its invisible workings.

On Rentboy, Sex Panics, Feminism, and More

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 25, 2015

The gay press, such as it is, remains, with few exceptions, incapable of having the talent or the resources to do any kind of real investigative work on this story.

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Film, Art, Television, and Media

Travel, Passports, and the Differences between Expats and Immigrants

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date July 26, 2015

Excerpt: Koutonin appears peeved that he and others, perhaps more broadly the entrepreneurs he writes for in his regular blog, don’t get to enjoy the class privilege of being expatriates.

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Rachel Dolezal and the Materiality of Race

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date June 13, 2015

The materiality of race, even as it operates as a legal fiction in several instances, functions to exclude, stigmatise, wound, and break, in a literal sense, as the past many months have shown.

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Working Skin: Joseph Hankins Writes about Leather, Japan’s Buraku People, and Global Circuits of Identity Formation

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date April 1, 2015

“This is an attempt to trace the conditions that reproduce the logic of the suffering/savage slot, even as I position my own work within those conditions.”

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Queer Politics, Culture, and History

Introverts and the Kinsey Scale

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date November 9, 2014

Excerpt: Introverts are not Magical and Special People; they can be assholes like everyone else.

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Chicago Chronicles Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

On the Scent of Cum, Steam, and Gentrification

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date October 15, 2014

Excerpt: Every neighbourhood needs its bathhouse, and there was nothing like jizz in the air to make me feel at home.

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Academia Capitalism, Class, Inequality Labour

“Class Shock: Affect, Mobility, and the Adjunct Crisis”: New Piece in Contrivers’ Review

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date October 15, 2014

Class Shock: the feeling of inadequacy and anger that arises when one’s class aspirations have been trampled underfoot.

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Capitalism, Class, Inequality

On Cravings, Illness, and Chana Masala

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date April 24, 2014

I’ll be the first to admit that chana masala, like good or even decent pound cake, is best made from scratch but there’s a time and place for that, and a time and place for simply throwing everything into a pot and crossing your fingers that you end up with something edible.

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My Review of Sex Workers Unite!

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date March 16, 2014

The history of urban centers is, in palpable ways, the history of their sex workers.

Sex Workers Unite: A History of the Movement from Stonewall to SlutWalk by [Chateauvert, Melinda]