Category: Film, Art, Television, and Media

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

Tags Jacobin, Left Publishing

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

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.