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Category: Capitalism, Class, Inequality

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.

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Chicago Chronicles

So What If Teachers Are in It for the Money?

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date September 14, 2012

Excerpt: Love is not an antidote to neoliberalism but the whole point of it.

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Gay Marriage Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Gay Marriage Hurts My Breasts

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date May 2, 2012

Excerpt: You want health care but not marriage or commitment? Tough titties. Get married or die.