Writer, Academic, Activist, Commentator

Category: Capitalism, Class, Inequality

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 Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Why Is America Turning to Shit?

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date October 30, 2013

Excerpt: If we are to truly reimagine the place of shit in our lives, we need to consider the harsh realities of who gets to shit in peace, and who gets to clean it up afterwards.

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.

Capitalism, Class, Inequality

What’s REALLY Weird About This iPhone Story?

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date September 21, 2013

iPhones are apparently the Beanie Babies – remember them? – of the phone world.

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

Romancing the Border: Or, Making (Self) Deportation Sexy

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date July 18, 2013

Stop buying this bullshit, people, and start asking the hard questions.

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

Illinois’ Gay Marriage Disaster: An Autopsy

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date June 19, 2013

Illinois has the highest foreclosure rate in the country in 2012, and the highest unemployment rate. Marriage can’t prevent either.

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

ENDA, We Hardly Know Ya

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date May 1, 2013

In other words, it’s completely legal to fire someone for any reason in more states than those where it’s legal to fire someone for being gay.

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

Gay Marriage’s Economic Underside

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date March 26, 2013

Gay marriage will become a way to make neoliberalism both palatable and more palpable, more an everyday part of our lives.

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Gay Marriage

Gay Marriage IS a Conservative Cause

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date February 26, 2013

There has never been a left case for gay marriage.

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Feminism Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Her Royal Hymen: Kate Middleton Drops Top, Finds Modesty, Helps Brand Britain

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date September 27, 2012

Excerpt: In the case of Kate Middleton, what we see is a reinventing of her as not exactly virginal but at least as modest and easily shocked, a reinvention that allows her to take her rightful place in the hymenal economy of Brand Britain.