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Category: Feminism

“White Chick Behind Bars”: My Review of Orange is the New Black, Season 1

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date July 18, 2013

The show can’t conceive of the fact that the biggest hurdle for most of the women in prison with Chapman is not that they made ‘bad choices,’ but that their future choices are foreclosed by prison.

Chicago Chronicles Feminism Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Reporting

Alice Walker discusses books at Women and Children First event

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date July 2, 2013

Literary icon and celebrity Alice Walker was in Chicago on July 1 to promote two new books. She appeared as part of the summer program at Women and Children First (WCF) bookstore. Though sponsored by the bookstore, the event was held at the First Free Church, 5525 N. Ashland. The venue had been changed from the Swedish Museum in order to accommodate larger crowds.

Chicago Chronicles Feminism Immigration Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Reporting

Chicago Dyke March Collective hosts immigration forum

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date June 5, 2013

Since 2008, the Chicago Dyke March Collective (CDMC) has held its annual march in locations outside the city’s traditional Andersonville neighborhood. The CDMC has also, in recent years, sought to engage communities by organizing forums on topics relevant to the area it marches in.

Academia Chicago Chronicles Feminism Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Reporting

Puerto Rican activist discusses life, poems

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date May 22, 2013

Luzma Umpierre-Herrera, a leading and out lesbian Puerto Rican poet and critic, was in Chicago this past week to present on her work.

Academia Chicago Chronicles Feminism Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

On Jim Hubbard’s “United in Anger” and Jeff Edwards

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date November 29, 2012

Edwards would have been metaphorically and literally run out of Chicago if he had been anything but a white, gay man.

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

Feminism Prison industrial complex Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Is Slutwalk the End of Feminism?

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date October 9, 2012

If feminism is to remain relevant, it needs to become more intractable, not less, and it needs to see itself working beyond the landscape of the personal.

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

Her Royal Hymen: Kate Middleton Drops Top, Finds Modesty, Helps Brand Britain

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date September 27, 2012

Excerpt: In the case of Kate Middleton, what we see is a reinventing of her as not exactly virginal but at least as modest and easily shocked, a reinvention that allows her to take her rightful place in the hymenal economy of Brand Britain.

Chicago Chronicles Feminism Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

The Politics of Storytelling

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date June 18, 2012

Extract: We are not connected by the truth or universality of our experiences because our experiences are not universal. Instead, we are connected by the systemic links between the oppressions that grind us down.

Feminism Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

In Defense of Sluts

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date March 3, 2012

What, pray tell, if Fluke is indeed a slut?