Category: Film, Art, Television, and Media

Feminism Film, Art, Television, and Media

Somaly Mam, Nicholas Kristof, and the Real Sex Trafficking Story

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date June 2, 2014

Excerpt: Nicholas Kristof’s collected work on sex trafficking constitutes a masturbatory text, allowing do-gooders everywhere to stroke and erect their unspoken desires about rescuing sad, tormented women.

Tags Nicholas Kristoff, Sex Trafficking, Somaly Mam

Film, Art, Television, and Media On Books and Publishing

Is Your Reading Material Ethically Sourced?

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date May 29, 2014

When you share articles from sources that don’t pay their writers even when they can afford to or when you support the work of an editor who takes pay but doesn’t bother to pay writers, you’re contributing to the increase in scab labour in publishing.

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Academia Film, Art, Television, and Media

Paul Krugman, CUNY, and the fallacy of “The 99%”

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date May 13, 2014

The problem can only be resolved if we do away with adjuncts entirely.

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

Why Now? Introducing the Allen-Farrow Series

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date May 1, 2014

This shit’s complicated

Film, Art, Television, and Media On Books and Publishing

Scabs and the Seduction of Neoliberalism

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date March 19, 2014

If you’re going to be a working writer or any kind of “creative professional,” demand the same kind of respect you would give to someone who fixes your plumbing.

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Film, Art, Television, and Media Prison industrial complex Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

My Interview with Laverne Cox in In These Times

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date February 21, 2014

“I’d be doing myself and my community a disservice if I didn’t speak in an intersectional way.”

Feminism Film, Art, Television, and Media Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Reporting

Pratibah Parmar discusses Alice Walker’s ‘Truth’

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date February 5, 2014

Pratibha Parmar is an acclaimed filmmaker, among the first of a generation of queer British filmmakers who were also people of color. Among her many noteworthy films are Reframing AIDS (1987) and Khush (1991). In 1993, she made Warrior Marks, a film about female genital mutilation, based on a book by Alice Walker and Parmar. Warrior Marks was controversial amongst many who opposed Walker and Parmar’s political stance against FGM, but cemented a long-standing collaboration and friendship between the two women.

Film, Art, Television, and Media Queer Politics, Culture, and History

My review of the Queer Art Show, “Strange Bedfellows,” Chicago Reader

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date January 29, 2014

It leaves open the many questions it raises: What do we mean by queer art today? Who makes it? Do we still need it?

Film, Art, Television, and Media Queer Politics, Culture, and History

When XXX Doesn’t Mark the Spot: What censoring online porn means for queer youth (and everyone else), In These Times

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date December 30, 2013

Ultimately, neoliberal controls will make access limitless for the affluent and miserly for the rest.

Academia Capitalism, Class, Inequality Film, Art, Television, and Media Labour On Books and Publishing

On Writers as Scabs, Whores, and Interns, And the Jacobin Problem

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date December 11, 2013

Left publishing will increasingly be filled with lots of timid writing that doesn’t require the hard skills that experienced writers might bring to their work.

Tags Jacobin, Left Publishing