Category: Capitalism, Class, Inequality

“What Happened in Room 2806?”: On Strauss-Kahn, the Maid, Power, and Our Fictions About Sex

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date July 8, 2011

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Make Art! Change the World! Starve!: The Fallacy of Art as Social Justice – Part I

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 12, 2010

Excerpt: For the most part, arts and social justice funding is infused with the aura of nobility, combining the portrait of the penniless but determined artist with the desire and drive to change the world.

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Such Beastly Love: Animals and Affect in a Neoliberal World

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 7, 2010

Excerpt: All around us, animals penetrate capital.

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What’s Left of Queer?: Immigration, Sexuality, and Affect in a Neoliberal World

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 7, 2010

Excerpt: You can have your identity, or you can have your rights as a worker. But it’s increasingly difficult to have both.

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Rebecca Skloot’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 4, 2010

Skloot’s remarkable book parallels a deeply important story about a scientific breakthrough with an equally riveting one about the human subjects whose active and inactive participation helped make it possible.

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Class in drag: In American politics, the poor are dressed up as “working class”

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 1, 2010

Our sentimentality about the “working class” allows us to forget the depth of the inequality we face.

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Hillary Carlip’s À la Cart: The Secret Lives of Grocery Shoppers

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date July 30, 2010

What and whom are we laughing at, exactly?

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Father’s Day, Queer Families, and Gay Marriage

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date June 22, 2009

I don’t think that monogamy is necessarily unnatural; I have several beloved queer and non-queer friends who enjoy it enough to try it over and over again.

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The Rise of the Nouveau Frugalese Or, Why Those Cups of Coffee Won’t Amount to a Hill of Beans

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date June 8, 2009

”I don’t need frugality; I need a job, and health care, and rent money.”

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Does This Debt Make Me Look Guilty?

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date May 25, 2009

Debt is the little black dress in everybody’s wardrobe. You may not want it, it doesn’t really excite you, but you’re encouraged to have one because you never know when you might need it.

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