Category: Politics

Posts on matters related to local and national politics.

Obama’s Birthday Bash Is For Neoliberal Elites

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 4, 2021

Excerpt: As the first neoliberal president, the first such to think about himself as not merely a public figure but as an economic entity, Obama needed to monetise his legacy and make himself a desirable commodity that could in turn create an empire of wealth and influence for the elites he had cultivated over his eight years.

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

Adoption and the Burden of Whiteness

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date May 17, 2021

Excerpt: The problems facing adoptees of colour and white adoptees are different in many ways but no matter their colour, adoptees inevitably face the burdens of race.

Labour Politics

On Israel Killing Children

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date May 17, 2021

Excerpt: The killing of children is the point.

Politics

No, Neera Tanden Was Not Cancelled over Her Tweets

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date March 3, 2021

The point of politics is to keep its ugliness hidden, not out in open view.

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.

Feminism Politics

What Does Your Politician Mean to You?

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date February 17, 2021

What should your politician do for you and what should your politician be to you: those are two entirely separate questions.

Politics

“Elections Have Consequences”: Why We Should Scrap The Current System

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date September 30, 2020

Politics

Should You Vote?

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date September 6, 2020

Instead of raging only about the larger political system, look closely at the institutions that have for so long granted access to matters like health and education and demand more from them.

Politics

Every President Is a Sociopath

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 26, 2020

Official portrait of President Donald J. Trump, Friday, October 6, 2017. (Official White House photo by Shealah Craighead)

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.