Category: Chicago Chronicles

Articles about/reporting on Chicago events, issues, and people.

Chicago Chronicles Pandemic

I’m Now on Instagram

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 24, 2020

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Chicago Freedom School and Moments of Justice, 2019

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date October 22, 2019

There are very, very few organisations I truly support and Chicago Freedom School, an organisation devoted to nurturing and creating youth-led social justice and education, is one of them. Please read this and support them as they ready for their annual Moments of Justice event.

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Chicago Chronicles

On Philz Coffee in Hyde Park

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date September 12, 2019

I shouldn’t have to endure quite that degree of preciousness over a morning cup, but this is coffee country: my thoughts are heresy, and they flay people for less.

Chicago Chronicles Gay Marriage Queer Politics, Culture, and History Reporting

“Forget Stonewall,” in The Gay and Lesbian Review

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date April 27, 2019

The point in forgetting Stonewall is to hold on to the much more difficult task of thinking about “event-ness” and history in more complicated ways.

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

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.

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Hyde Park: Where Food Goes to Die

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date June 26, 2018

Excerpt: What kind of culinary omerta survives in Hyde Park to keep its restaurants at such a depth of mediocrity?

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Chicago Chronicles Labour Politics Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Bitches of Capitalism: My Speech on International Working Women’s Day, March 8

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date March 17, 2017

I was invited by the Chicago Socialist Party to speak about and on International Working Women’s Day, March 8. My thanks to all the organisers, and to the many amazing people who showed up — and stayed — through all my words and those of my co-presenters, Tobita Chow, Erica Nanton, Red Schulte, Zerlina Smith, and Rehmah Sufi.* You can watch a video here; below is the text of the speech.

Chicago Chronicles Prison industrial complex Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Reporting

Talking with prison abolitionist Mariame Kaba

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date May 11, 2016

Chicago Chronicles Queer Politics, Culture, and History Reporting

Jim Oleson, partner of historian John D’Emilio, dies

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date May 4, 2015

Jim Oleson, 77, a longtime Chicago resident and partner of gay historian John D’Emilio, died at their home on April 4, surrounded by loved ones. He had severely weakened lungs and heart, and had recently begun home hospice care.

Chicago Chronicles Politics

Rahm, Chuy, and the Real Problem with Chicago Politics

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date April 7, 2015

Is it really possible to dismantle the power of the mayor of Chicago by constantly looking for someone to occupy the office?