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Category: Film, Art, Television, and Media

Aping Revolution: Nostalgia Trap Episode on Rise of the Planet of the Apes

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date May 20, 2020

All that and James Franco!

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

Anal Sex and Its Discontents: Emma Sulkowicz, Lawrence v. Texas, and the Histories of a Sex Act

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date January 7, 2020

Excerpt: It’s not that anal sex disrupts capitalism… but that it symbolises the dichotomy between public and private which also characterises the accumulation of capital.

Tags Artworld, Performance Art, Sex, sexuality, Sodomy Laws

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

Adopting Difference: Race, Sex, and the Archaeology of Power in the Farrow-Allen Case

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date January 7, 2020

Taking all these intertwining histories into account reveals an archaeology of power. This is not just a history of Farrow’s life, but a cultural history of the link between celebrity, adoption, and the idealisation of the nation-state.

Originally published May 3, 2014

British Painting - British 19th Century, Portrait Of An Unknown Family by Quint Lox

Tags Celebrity, Film, Hollywood, Mia Farrow, Television, Woody Allen

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

On Caroline Calloway and Whole Foods

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date October 1, 2019

Excerpt: We have always been defined by our thingness, our places in different economies, different kinds of circulation of value. We’ve only just learned how to make our thingnesses visible to each other.

Feminism Film, Art, Television, and Media

On That Game of Thrones Finale

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date May 21, 2019

It’s like hooking up with an ex who is only bound to disappoint.

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

MAGA Country: Streeterville and the Jussie Smollett Story

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date March 28, 2019

The city of Chicago is central to this story, but it has been ignored in all the coverage.

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

On Liam Neeson and the Erasure of the Idea of the Past

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date February 14, 2019

In this context, time as we understand it no longer exists, and has shifted into a permanent state of the ever-present; social media has served to flatten out time. There is no “was” in this scenario, only an “is.” We suffer from a permanent state of is-ness, engorged with anger.

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Film, Art, Television, and Media

Mary Poppins Returns, and Not Much Happens

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date February 6, 2019

It feels like every character is bounding out of the screen asking you, Do you feel that child-like sense of wonder yet? Well, DO you?

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

Jason Momoa, Aquaman, and the Queer Art of Friendship

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date January 29, 2019

Excerpt: If “queer” means anything, and if we queers have given anything to the world, it’s a combination of sex and love that stretches the imagination and the concept of friendship.

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

Your Trauma Is Your Passport: Hannah Gadsby, Nanette, and Global Citizenship

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date November 20, 2018

Excerpt: Nanette assures viewers, especially straight ones, that queers and women can and must be understood and assimilated by first understanding us as uniquely and literally broken and bashed in.