Category: Chicago Chronicles

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

Chicago Chronicles People and Places to Support

Support Chicago Freedom School for A Better World!

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date October 28, 2014

I’m writing to ask people to support an organisation that is one of the few near and dear to my heart: Chicago Freedom School. On November 6, 2014, CFS will be hosting its Moments of Justice event, in celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act.

On the Scent of Cum, Steam, and Gentrification

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date October 15, 2014

Excerpt: Every neighbourhood needs its bathhouse, and there was nothing like jizz in the air to make me feel at home.

Tags Bathhouses

Chicago Chronicles Feminism Queer Politics, Culture, and History Reporting

Statue stolen from HBHC Peace Garden again

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date April 13, 2014

A statue commemorating the late Mary York, the lesbian attorney and community activist who died of cancer in 2008, has been stolen from the Howard Brown Health Center ( HBHC ) Peace Garden.

Chicago Chronicles Queer Politics, Culture, and History Reporting

As Munar leaves, John Peller discusses taking over AFC

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date April 2, 2014

Chicago Chronicles Feminism Immigration

On Malayalam and Melancholia

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date February 21, 2014

Excerpt: Am I melancholy because I am alive, or am I alive because I am melancholy?

Chicago Chronicles Queer Politics, Culture, and History Reporting

David Munar will head Howard Brown center [includes video interview]

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date February 12, 2014

Longtime AIDS and LGBT health advocate David Munar will take over the troubled Howard Brown Health Center ( HBHC ) as its new president and CEO starting April 1.

Chicago Chronicles Queer Politics, Culture, and History Reporting

Howard Brown terminates several staff

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date January 9, 2014

Following whispers that Howard Brown Health Center is set to hire a new leader of the organization, as reported last week in Windy City Times, comes news of employment terminations at the agency.

Chicago Chronicles Queer Politics, Culture, and History Reporting

HBHC could see new director soon

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date January 6, 2014

Howard Brown Health Center is due to make significant changes in the following weeks, including possibly hiring a new leader, according to sources contacted by Windy City Times.

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

Trans activist Dean Spade holds court at DePaul

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date September 30, 2013

Noted trans activist, attorney, Sylvia Rivera Law Project (SRLP) founder and author Dean Spade was in Chicago presenting on his book, Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law. The event took place Sept. 24 in the DePaul Student Center.

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

Angela Davis on Guns, Violence, and History

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date September 9, 2013

Prison abolitionist and activist Angela Davis was in Chicago Sept. 7, as the keynote speaker at “Bending the Arc,” a new symposium series in honor of late civil-rights attorney and activist Robert Howard.