Category: Film, Art, Television, and Media

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

Celebrity Nude Photos and Sexual Assault: Some Thoughts

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date September 3, 2014

At the heart of all this manufactured outrage lies barely suppressed anger at the projected violation of white women.

Tags Celebrity, Hollywood

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

“The Reign of Whitey Is Never Over”: Review of Orange Is the New Black, Season 2

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date June 11, 2014

If Season 1 made prison seem like Camp PrisonCanBeFun for girls, Season 2 is bleaker and filled with reminders that the only certainty about prison life, besides the roaches and the shit bubbling up through bad plumbing, is the absolute uncertainty.

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

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.

Machinery Painting - Detroit Industry North Wall by Diego Rivera

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?