Category: Feminism

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

Scene at Niagara Falls; Platt D. Babbitt (American, 1823 - 1879); about 1855; Daguerreotype; 84.XT.866

Feminism Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

“March as Feminists, Not As Women” Now Up On Verso’s Blog

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date January 21, 2017

A women’s march is terrified of or angry at a monstrous man, a feminist one understands how to vanquish the system that birthed him. Tomorrow, march as a feminist, not as a woman.

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

Should You March Against Trump?

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date January 19, 2017

Update, January 19, 2025: I wrote this in 2017, the day before Trump’s first inauguration. While he defeated a different candidate this time (even worse than Hillary Clinton, and whose loss I predicted the day after her “nomination“), the urge to forget history remains as fierce as ever. Trump, we are told, again, is a stunning break in American history–when he is in fact a continuation of it. The way ahead is to take a long, hard look at the massive failure of our imagination, and our refusal to create sustainable alternatives to Trump. The left is mired in its belief that, somehow, “identity politics” gave rise to Trump, but the truth is that it failed to provide a clear and sustainable alternative to him. Blaming people who are not white, cis, heterosexual men gets us nowhere. I’ll have more on that in the coming weeks and months. In the meantime, stay safe.

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Feminism Gay Marriage Politics Queer Politics, Culture, and History

Choose Your Elite: Edith Windsor, Hillary Clinton, or Donald Trump

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date October 6, 2016

Excerpt: Only the privileged get to jump on lifeboats to safety leaving everyone else to drown in seas of debt and poverty.

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

Meryl Streep Is in Costume as Florence Foster Jenkins

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date September 1, 2016

Excerpt: Imagine the iconic figure of the young woman holding up a little black dog. Consider the impressionistic lushnesss of the image. Now imagine that someone has come along, cut out the woman, and replaced her with a photographic image of a woman with a dog.

Feminism Politics Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Anthony Weiner, Huma Abedin, and the Gender of Power

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 29, 2016

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

Ghostbusters, Hillary Clinton, and Faux Feminism

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 6, 2016

We’re not obliged to prop up faux feminism: We can and should expect films that actually make strong feminist statements embedded in excellent writing and character development.

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Feminism Politics

On the Current Paranoia about Trump vs. Clinton

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date July 29, 2016

I think those who criticise critics of HRC for possibly enabling a Trump victory are over-invested in presidential politics and elections to the extent they don’t see how work actually needs to happen in other arenas and levels.

WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 10, 2016: Illustration of presidential campaign buttons of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump running for the president's office.