Category: Politics

Posts on matters related to local and national politics.

Today

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date May 25, 2022

Excerpt: I see less and less hope for the U.S with every passing day.

Politics Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

We Created the Cuomos

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 4, 2021

Excerpt: The public, watching, laughing, and cheering on these two brothers, was always fully complicit.

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Chicago Chronicles 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.