Category: Politics

Posts on matters related to local and national politics.

It’s Fiorina and Clinton, not Carly and Hillary

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date September 16, 2015

Excerpt: Naming is power, and how the press names and refers to candidates has everything to do with what values it assigns to them.

Politics Queer Politics, Culture, and History

Stop Fetishising Youth Organisers

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date September 3, 2015

Why assume that age gives either wisdom to the old or energy to the young?

On Books and Publishing Politics

My Review of Joseph Massad’s Islam in Liberalism in Electronic Intifdad

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 21, 2015

This is a dense and densely argued book, in the best way.

Politics Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Hillary Clinton, Sexism, and Black Lives Matter

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 18, 2015

This is sexist bullshit, and we need to call it what it is.

Politics Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Your Sex Is Not Radical

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date June 28, 2015

Excerpt: How many people you fuck has nothing to do with the extet to which you fuck up capitalism.

Chicago Chronicles Politics

Rahm, Chuy, and the Real Problem with Chicago Politics

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date April 7, 2015

Is it really possible to dismantle the power of the mayor of Chicago by constantly looking for someone to occupy the office?

Politics

Gaza Is Not Ferguson

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 14, 2014

It’s popular and easy to talk and write about capitalism as being inherently racist and/or anti-Black, but the harder work involves an understanding of capitalism’s insidiousness, outside the mystifying tendencies of much of today’s race scholarship.