Category: Capitalism, Class, Inequality

WeWork, Or Give People Money

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date April 4, 2021

Money is a construct.

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

AOC and the Weaponisation of Trauma

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date February 27, 2021

Excerpt: It is a particular irony of the times we live in that a woman of colour helps to suspend any ongoing awareness of the deathliness of American history by retelling her personal trauma.

Animals Capitalism, Class, Inequality Pandemic

“So Long and Thanks for Nothing” in Evergreen Review

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date September 1, 2020

Tell people that “Mother Earth” is wounded and needs their help, and wallets open. Tell them that the problem with the environment is a result of multiple capitalist systems crashing and burning at once, and eyes glaze over.

Capitalism, Class, Inequality On Books and Publishing Yasmin's Media Appearances

I was on the Current Affairs Podcast, Talking about Publishing

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date September 1, 2020

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

Stop Humanising Victims

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date July 19, 2020

Excerpt: “Humanising” stories blunt our consciousness about how violence and death come about.

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Film, Art, Television, and Media Labour Yasmin's Media Appearances

Nostalgia Trap Episode, “No Place Like Home.”

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date July 12, 2020

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

“Can We Save Facebook?”: New Piece in Current Affairs

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date May 20, 2020

Our end goal is to destroy the machine itself.

Animals Capitalism, Class, Inequality Film, Art, Television, and Media Prison industrial complex Updates Yasmin's Media Appearances

Aping Revolution: Nostalgia Trap Episode on Rise of the Planet of the Apes

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date May 20, 2020

All that and James Franco!

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Chicago Chronicles

On Philz Coffee in Hyde Park

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date September 12, 2019

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

American Gay: Pete Buttigieg and the Politics of Forgetting

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date June 18, 2019

Excerpt: The problem with Pete Buttigieg is not that he is homonormative or assimilationist, but that he represents a new will to forgetfulness on the part of the United States, a will embedded in a desire to recreate not just this country but the world in the cast of a new, gayer imperialism.