Writer, Academic, Activist, Commentator

Category: Film, Art, Television, and Media

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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.”

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

“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.

Animals Capitalism, Class, Inequality Film, Art, Television, and Media Prison industrial complex Updates Yasmin's Media Appearances

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