Categories Academia Feminism Film, Art, Television, and Media Gay Marriage Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Angelina Jolie, Queer Theory, and the Gods of Neoliberalism Post author By Yasmin Nair Post date September 21, 2007 Excerpt: ‘Sybil,’ it turns out, may barely have had one personality, leave alone sixteen. Much like Angelina, whose wild queerness turns out to have hidden a saintly girl who marries half the people with whom she sleeps.” Continue reading “Angelina Jolie, Queer Theory, and the Gods of Neoliberalism”
Categories Politics Queer Politics, Culture, and History Larry Craig, Weapons of Mass Distraction, and Lesbian Public Sex Post author By Yasmin Nair Post date September 5, 2007 We are being screwed, my friends, and not in a good way. Continue reading “Larry Craig, Weapons of Mass Distraction, and Lesbian Public Sex”
Categories On Books and Publishing Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Kenny Fries’ The History of My Shoes and the Evolution of Darwin’s Theory Post author By Yasmin Nair Post date August 29, 2007 Interesting ideas don’t always make for compelling books. Continue reading “Kenny Fries’ The History of My Shoes and the Evolution of Darwin’s Theory”
Categories Film, Art, Television, and Media On Books and Publishing Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic Post author By Yasmin Nair Post date July 4, 2007 “I’d been upstaged, demoted from protagonist in my own drama to comic relief in my parents’ tragedy.” Continue reading “Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic”
Categories Gay Marriage Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Who Needs Larry Kramer?: A resurrected ACT UP does not a progressive queer agenda make Post author By Yasmin Nair Post date June 1, 2007 When you have queers simultaneously fighting against a war and for the right to fight in it, the end of the world seems nigh. Continue reading “Who Needs Larry Kramer?: A resurrected ACT UP does not a progressive queer agenda make”
Categories Film, Art, Television, and Media On Books and Publishing Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Rupert Everett’s Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins: The Autobiography Post author By Yasmin Nair Post date April 25, 2007 Now, to be a celebrity was to become a logo. Continue reading “Rupert Everett’s Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins: The Autobiography”
Categories On Books and Publishing Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality A Different Take on Irshad Manji Post author By Yasmin Nair Post date April 1, 2007 She fully understands that history is made by those in power. She consistently opposes those who don’t defer to power. Continue reading “A Different Take on Irshad Manji”
Categories On Books and Publishing Queer Politics, Culture, and History Isle of Manji: Interview with Irshad Manji Post author By Yasmin Nair Post date March 28, 2007 Continue reading “Isle of Manji: Interview with Irshad Manji”
Categories Capitalism, Class, Inequality Gay Marriage Immigration Queer Politics, Culture, and History Gay Immigration (and) Inequality Post author By Yasmin Nair Post date June 6, 2006 But is “family” necessarily part of a progressive reform agenda? Continue reading “Gay Immigration (and) Inequality”
Categories Capitalism, Class, Inequality Chicago Chronicles Queer Politics, Culture, and History Queer Space Post author By Yasmin Nair Post date June 1, 2006 But, in the end, it’s about who can pay to live in a neighborhood and whose tax dollars count the most. Continue reading “Queer Space”
