Category: Capitalism, Class, Inequality

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Chicago Chronicles

On the Obamas as Nouveaux Riches

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 19, 2021

Excerpt: Who among us, including landed gentry and nobility with four-hundred-year-old castles, are not always already nouveaux in our riches?

Obama’s Birthday Bash Is For Neoliberal Elites

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 4, 2021

Excerpt: As the first neoliberal president, the first such to think about himself as not merely a public figure but as an economic entity, Obama needed to monetise his legacy and make himself a desirable commodity that could in turn create an empire of wealth and influence for the elites he had cultivated over his eight years.

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Pandemic

Stop Blaming the Unvaccinated

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date July 26, 2021

Excerpt: If we really want to control this pandemic, we need to think of broad systemic changes which involve more vaccinations, yes, but also ways of actually taking care of everyone, including those infected and unvaccinated.

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

Granny Labour in Never Have I Ever

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date July 24, 2021

Excerpt: Never Have I Ever normalises her uprooting and her labour …and casts all of it as benign, adorable, and part of the fabric of Indian American life.

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Gay Marriage Hate Crime Legislation Prison industrial complex Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

On Kink at Pride

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date June 8, 2021

Excerpt: The really radical act is to question the idea that any sexual act is somehow in itself transgressive.

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

Jolene, Jolene, Jolene: On Blackness in Queen’s Gambit

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date June 4, 2021

Excerpt: But what if a more nuanced portrayal of their relationship, one that acknowledged that initial shock, existed?

Capitalism, Class, Inequality On Books and Publishing

The Publishing World Is Like Fyre Fest

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date June 3, 2021

Excerpt: It’s a lifestyle many writers yearn for: unhurried, complacent, lots of manufactured insouciance, and lots of money to write about it all.

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

Adoption and the Burden of Whiteness

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date May 17, 2021

Excerpt: The problems facing adoptees of colour and white adoptees are different in many ways but no matter their colour, adoptees inevitably face the burdens of race.

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Chicago Chronicles Hate Crime Legislation

On Adam Toledo As A Child

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date April 16, 2021

How different would our responses be if Toledo had been an adult facing the police and dropping the gun in exactly the same situation?

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Chicago Chronicles Pandemic

On Guilt and Vaccinations

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date April 5, 2021

Guilt? We have no time for it.