Category: Feminism

Feminism Film, Art, Television, and Media

On That Game of Thrones Finale

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date May 21, 2019

It’s like hooking up with an ex who is only bound to disappoint.

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Polyamory Is Gay Marriage for Straight People

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date February 15, 2019

Excerpt: The problem with relationships is not that individuals engage in them in particular ways, but that systems compel individuals to relate to each other in particular ways.

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Feminism Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

On Nostalgia, Sex Work, and the Dancing Girls of Lahore

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date January 10, 2019

Excerpt: She wilfully erases the economic and political conditions they live in and weaponises their lives in the interest of a global nostalgia that has no basis in reality.

“ From the series The Beauties of Lucknow by Darogah Abbas Ali ca. 1874. ”

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Feminism Film, Art, Television, and Media Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Your Trauma Is Your Passport: Hannah Gadsby, Nanette, and Global Citizenship

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date November 20, 2018

Excerpt: Nanette assures viewers, especially straight ones, that queers and women can and must be understood and assimilated by first understanding us as uniquely and literally broken and bashed in.

Feminism Film, Art, Television, and Media Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

All the White Ladies: The Real Dinosaurs of Murphy Brown

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date November 13, 2018

All the white ladies, from Hillary Clinton to Diane English to Candice Bergen and the fictional Murphy Brown, living in a past only they recall fondly and refusing to confront the realities of the present.

Feminism Film, Art, Television, and Media Politics Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

A Monica for Our Time: Reinventing Sex and Trauma in the Age of #MeToo

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date March 10, 2018

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Feminism Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Abortive Reasoning: What’s Wrong with the Reproductive Rights Debate

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date June 1, 2017

The tyranny of experience in abortion rights discourse has potentially disastrous consequences.

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Feminism On Books and Publishing Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Complicity, Not Tyranny: The Anger over Lori Szala’s Abortion Article

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date May 18, 2017

Abortion rights are as good as nil in this country.

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Feminism On Books and Publishing Politics Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Bourgeois Feminist Bullshit: The Rebecca Traister View of Gender and the World

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date February 21, 2017

Single status is now no longer a blight upon the land but a set of Very Useful Functions that keep the economy running smoothly.

Feminism Film, Art, Television, and Media Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Joshua Marston’s Complete Unknown: Or, When Critics Respond To A Woman Who Lives Like A Man

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date February 8, 2017

Both Variety and the Times describe Weisz’s character as a “femme fatale,” even though there’s no hint that she enters her various lives by feminine wiles.