Category: Politics

Posts on matters related to local and national politics.

On Death and Exceptionalism

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date December 9, 2012

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?

Politics Queer Politics, Culture, and History

Anti-gay adoption bill narrowly defeated in committee by seven votes to six

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date April 21, 2011

Breaking News

Originally appeared in Windy City Times on April 13, 2011

In a narrow victory for gay rights activists SB 1123, which would have effectively allowed religious child welfare and adoption agencies to bar adoptions and foster care by gay parents was just struck down.

Politics

Michael Bloomberg: King of the World

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 4, 2010

Only Michael Bloomberg would actually have the audacity to pretend that proffering his massive fortune – and access to the fortunes of others – is somehow indicative of “independence” and the ability to “speak plainly about common sense solutions.”

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Politics Queer Politics, Culture, and History

Homophobia and Israel/Palestine or, What’s political about “Queer?”: Some thoughts

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 3, 2010

Politics Queer Politics, Culture, and History

DADT and the Silence / Silencing of Queer Anti-War Voices

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 3, 2010

Even programs like Amy Goodman’s are going along with this gay conservatism around war and DADT and not questioning the contradictions that they, surely, discern.

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Politics

Class in Drag: In American Politics, the Poor are Dressed up As “Working Class”

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 1, 2010

Our sentimentality about the “working class” allows us to forget the depth of the inequality we face.