Category: Politics

Posts on matters related to local and national politics.

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.

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Labour Politics

Saints Alive!: The Left Wags Its Finger, And Nothing Changes

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date February 27, 2017

If we frame political questions in terms of whether or not we can like each other or the ones we claim to fight for, and whether or not we’re being really, really nice to each other, our struggles are doomed and, frankly, we deserve to lose.

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Feminism On Books and Publishing Politics Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Bourgeois Feminist Bullshit: The Rebecca Traister View of Gender and the World

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date February 21, 2017

Single status is now no longer a blight upon the land but a set of Very Useful Functions that keep the economy running smoothly.

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

Should You March Against Trump?

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date January 19, 2017

To put it bluntly: Everything you are marching to prevent, dear marchers, has already come to pass.

Film, Art, Television, and Media On Books and Publishing Politics

The New York Times Is The Daily Prophet

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date December 16, 2016

Film, Art, Television, and Media Politics Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Donald Trump Won Because Hillary Clinton Lost

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date December 8, 2016

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Gay Marriage Politics Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Rights Make Might: The Dystopian Undertow of Hillary Clinton’s Elite Feminism

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date December 1, 2016

Liberal feminism is, by and large, also a carceral feminism: wedded to the idea that the only way to protect and preserve the rights of women is to turn to the prison–industrial complex as the final enforcer of gender justice.

Politics Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Updates

Welcome to The Morning After: November 17, 2016

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date November 17, 2016

The way ahead for the left is not to cede both discourse and imagination, but to think about how to expand on both to make itself felt as a living, breathing, entity that offers several wild and fantastic possibilities, utopias even, in a frightened and frightening world.