Category: Politics

Posts on matters related to local and national politics.

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.

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Politics

The World Will Still Need Your Attention: Beyond the 2016 Election

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date November 7, 2016

“At the end of the day, I still maintain I am ungovernable no matter who is elected, and that my dreams will never fit into a ballot box.”

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Feminism Gay Marriage Politics Queer Politics, Culture, and History

Choose Your Elite: Edith Windsor, Hillary Clinton, or Donald Trump

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date October 6, 2016

Excerpt: Only the privileged get to jump on lifeboats to safety leaving everyone else to drown in seas of debt and poverty.

Feminism Politics Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Anthony Weiner, Huma Abedin, and the Gender of Power

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 29, 2016

Excerpt: To point out that two such high-placed women in the world’s most powerful country had to negotiate their political lives through those of their husbands is not sexist: It simply points to the incredible sexism that still undergirds our political structure.

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Feminism Politics

On the Current Paranoia about Trump vs. Clinton

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date July 29, 2016

I think those who criticise critics of HRC for possibly enabling a Trump victory are over-invested in presidential politics and elections to the extent they don’t see how work actually needs to happen in other arenas and levels.