Category: Film, Art, Television, and Media

The Business Of Britney

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date November 12, 2021

Excerpt: Did we need Freud to understand that cutting off her long locks, the ultimate signifier of her hyper femininity, was akin to taking a razor to her breasts, to dissociate from the parts that trapped her?

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

Losing Eve: Is That All There Is?

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date October 20, 2021

Excerpt: And, really, who cares?

Academia Capitalism, Class, Inequality Feminism Film, Art, Television, and Media

The Chair Is Everything You Expect, And That’s The Problem

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 24, 2021

Excerpt: The structure remains intact.

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Film, Art, Television, and Media Labour Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Granny Labour in Never Have I Ever

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date July 24, 2021

Excerpt: Never Have I Ever normalises her uprooting and her labour …and casts all of it as benign, adorable, and part of the fabric of Indian American life.