Category: Film, Art, Television, and Media

My Review of “Resisterectomy” in the Chicago Reader and Chicago Sun-Times

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date December 3, 2013

“Resisterectomy” locates gender not as a finite end but as a more fraught series of questions.

Film, Art, Television, and Media Prison industrial complex Queer Politics, Culture, and History Reporting

Russian film about LGBTQ youth seeks funds

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date November 5, 2013

Children 404, a Russian-made documentary about Russian LGBTQ children and youth, is at the heart of a fundraising campaign, and North American scholars and activists are working to help the anonymous filmmakers make it a reality.

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

“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.

Film, Art, Television, and Media

Stop Blaming Media for Sunil Tripathi’s Death

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date April 25, 2013

Stop buying this bullshit, people, and start asking the hard questions.

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

‘Brother Outsider’ filmmaker Bennett Singer talks Bayard Rustin

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date March 21, 2012

Out filmmaker Bennett Singer is the co-director and co-producer, with Nancy D. Kates, of the critically acclaimed 2003 film, Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin, about the gay, African-American civil-rights activist whom many consider the main organizer behind the historic 1963 March on Washington.

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

CHM celebrates Rustin at 100

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date February 15, 2012

The Chicago History Museum hosted a presentation on Bayard Rustin, the late African-American and gay activist who organized the famed 1963 March on Washington D.C. The event, “Bayard Rustin at 100,” was part of the museum’s “Out at CHM” series.

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

The New Yorker Sheds More Light on the Clementi-Ravi Story

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date February 7, 2012

Can we grapple with the complexity of the truth instead of being seduced by the more palatable tale of good and evil?

Film, Art, Television, and Media

Looking for the Math and Science in Everything, And Failing to See the Arts

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date January 14, 2012

Just, please, don’t pretend it’s anything more than knitting in the round and don’t pretend to be engaging in some profoundly subversive form of politics.

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

My Modesty

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date June 19, 2011

Excerpt: Modesty represented power and an ability to reinvent oneself without giving a damn.

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Film, Art, Television, and Media On Books and Publishing Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Make Art! Change the World! Starve!: The Fallacy of Art as Social Justice – Part I

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 12, 2010

Excerpt: For the most part, arts and social justice funding is infused with the aura of nobility, combining the portrait of the penniless but determined artist with the desire and drive to change the world.