Categories Academia Feminism Film, Art, Television, and Media Gay Marriage Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Angelina Jolie, Queer Theory, and the Gods of Neoliberalism Post author By Yasmin Nair Post date September 21, 2007 Excerpt: ‘Sybil,’ it turns out, may barely have had one personality, leave alone sixteen. Much like Angelina, whose wild queerness turns out to have hidden a saintly girl who marries half the people with whom she sleeps.” Continue reading “Angelina Jolie, Queer Theory, and the Gods of Neoliberalism”
Categories Capitalism, Class, Inequality Feminism Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality American Home: Trafficking and the Return of Domesticity Post author By Yasmin Nair Post date July 1, 2006 Excerpt: Sex trafficking stories are symptomatic of our uneasy relationship with a new global economy. Continue reading “American Home: Trafficking and the Return of Domesticity”
Categories Feminism Gay Marriage Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality The Gay Movement is Over Post author By Yasmin Nair Post date April 4, 2006 The fight for gay marriage directly contributes to inequality in America. Continue reading “The Gay Movement is Over”
Categories Feminism Film, Art, Television, and Media Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality The Two Stories of Mukhtaran Bibi Post author By Yasmin Nair Post date July 1, 2005 Over and over again, history is forgotten in favor of narratives about “cultural difference.” Continue reading “The Two Stories of Mukhtaran Bibi”
Categories Capitalism, Class, Inequality Feminism Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality How Trafficking Became Sexy Post author By Yasmin Nair Post date September 1, 2004 Continue reading “How Trafficking Became Sexy”
