Category: Capitalism, Class, Inequality

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

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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.

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MAGA Country: Streeterville and the Jussie Smollett Story

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date March 28, 2019

The city of Chicago is central to this story, but it has been ignored in all the coverage.

Capitalism, Class, Inequality

Believe in Something: Corporate Wokeness Is Now Big Business

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date March 1, 2019

Corporate wokeness is now big business, quite literally.

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Should I Stay or Should I Go?: Review of Gay Inc

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date February 20, 2019

The nonprofit world runs on the fumes of exhaustion, desperate hope, and a general sense of futility exuded by its denizens.

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Polyamory Is Gay Marriage for Straight People

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date February 15, 2019

Excerpt: The problem with relationships is not that individuals engage in them in particular ways, but that systems compel individuals to relate to each other in particular ways.

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On Nostalgia, Sex Work, and the Dancing Girls of Lahore

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date January 10, 2019

Excerpt: She wilfully erases the economic and political conditions they live in and weaponises their lives in the interest of a global nostalgia that has no basis in reality.

“ From the series The Beauties of Lucknow by Darogah Abbas Ali ca. 1874. ”

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Feminism Film, Art, Television, and Media Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Your Trauma Is Your Passport: Hannah Gadsby, Nanette, and Global Citizenship

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date November 20, 2018

Excerpt: Nanette assures viewers, especially straight ones, that queers and women can and must be understood and assimilated by first understanding us as uniquely and literally broken and bashed in.

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Exalted Slogans: The Curse of Radical Academic Discourse

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date May 1, 2018

Was there perhaps an indigenous tribe somewhere that had called upon Ciccariello-Maher to come save it, tweet by tweet, from persecution? None came forward to express gratitude for his bravery on their behalf.