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Category: Film, Art, Television, and Media

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.

Film, Art, Television, and Media

Zombie Breasts

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date May 23, 2021

Excerpt: There need be no ponderous moments of tenderness or human connection.

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Film, Art, Television, and Media Pandemic

WeWork, Or Give People Money

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date April 4, 2021

Money is a construct.

Film, Art, Television, and Media Yasmin's Media Appearances

Current Affairs Podcast: The Arts Industry, In Two Parts

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date December 18, 2020

Feminism Film, Art, Television, and Media

On Mary Wollstonecraft and Public/Pubic Art

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date November 10, 2020

In a sense, every statue of a male intellectual has him with his schlong out, even if you can’t actually see said schlong.

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

Stop Humanising Victims

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date July 19, 2020

Excerpt: “Humanising” stories blunt our consciousness about how violence and death come about.

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Film, Art, Television, and Media Labour Yasmin's Media Appearances

Nostalgia Trap Episode, “No Place Like Home.”

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date July 12, 2020

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

Domesticus Scientifica: Or, How Temperance Brennan Lost Her Mind And Became a Woman

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date July 8, 2020

Excerpt: It’s all a bit like going to Thanksgiving at your nicely progressive cousin’s house and finding yourself seated next to Josef Mengele.

Film, Art, Television, and Media Yasmin's Media Appearances

Nostalgia Trap Episode, “Seduce and Destroy,” on Tom Cruise

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date May 22, 2020

“From his illegible sexuality to his leadership position within a massively powerful alien apocalypse cult, Cruise’s public and private presence reveals layers of insight into the ways that wealth, power, and desire intersect.”

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“Can We Save Facebook?”: New Piece in Current Affairs

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date May 20, 2020

Our end goal is to destroy the machine itself.