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Category: Feminism

“The Political Is Political”: I’m Profiled in Salvage

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date July 25, 2016

“But, as compelling and scandalising as her campaigning around gay marriage with Against Equality is, it is far from the only place she’s causing a stir.”

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Feminism Film, Art, Television, and Media Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Suey Park and the Afterlife of Twitter

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date April 4, 2016

Excerpt: Twitter is not merely a symptom of a public sphere but a platform that is bound up with the primary dictate of neoliberalism: Make yourself or die.

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Feminism Film, Art, Television, and Media Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Suey Park: Images

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date April 3, 2016

This document is a collection of images referenced in “Suey Park and the Afterlife of Twitter.” It will be constantly updated with more as the series progresses.

All images are screencaps from public Instagram and Twitter accounts.

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

The Feminist Utopia Project Isn’t Utopian Just Yet

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date March 8, 2016

The problem here is that greed is situated as an emotional and cultural value, rather than as what it is: a structural component of capitalism.

Feminism Gay Marriage Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

On Power Couples

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date November 15, 2015

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

It’s Fiorina and Clinton, not Carly and Hillary

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date September 16, 2015

Excerpt: Naming is power, and how the press names and refers to candidates has everything to do with what values it assigns to them.

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Feminism Gay Marriage Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

On Rentboy, Sex Panics, Feminism, and More

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 25, 2015

The gay press, such as it is, remains, with few exceptions, incapable of having the talent or the resources to do any kind of real investigative work on this story.