Category: Politics

Posts on matters related to local and national 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.

Tags Ferguson, Palestine, Police Brutality

Politics

“Yes, But What’s YOUR Solution?”

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date February 26, 2014

The fact is that there can be no remedy without a proper diagnosis.

Politics

A Socialist Alderman for Chicago?

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date January 29, 2014

Tags Socialism

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

Undocumented vs. Illegal: A Distinction without a Difference

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date December 11, 2012

Politics

On Death and Exceptionalism

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date December 9, 2012

Immigration Politics

Election 2012: Eyes Wide Shut

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date October 31, 2012

I would like us all to collectively dispense with the idea that an Obama administration is any less neoliberal from the last one or from a prospective Romney Presidency.

Feminism Politics Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Mourdock, Donnelly, Abortion, and the Wrath of Gods

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date October 24, 2012

To put it bluntly: both men would rather see women die than have abortions because they wanted to.

Immigration Politics

Clash of the Neoliberals: Obama’s Shell Game

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date October 20, 2012

We are persuaded that a gamble is actually a choice, and that may be the biggest shell game of all.

Politics Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Newt Gingrich: Polyamorist?

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date January 19, 2012

Caught between people who wanted me to be part of their polyamorous relationship, my response has usually been to flee. Really, people, can we just fuck and let it be?