Category: Film, Art, Television, and Media

Mr. Holmes and The Case of the Aging Sleuth

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date March 15, 2016

In Mr. Holmes, we are prompted to ask: What happens to old people who are alone? To be specific, what happens to people whose solitude comes about because the gifts they have or the wounds they bear make it difficult for them to inhabit the world as others might?

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

Oscars: Diversity Is Not the Problem

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date February 29, 2016

The Academy operates like a corporation, and like every corporation it will work hard to maintain its facade of diversity.

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

Twitter Trials: Why I Am Writing about Suey Park

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date December 15, 2015

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

Matt Damon and the Case against Coming Out

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date October 2, 2015

It’s not that queerness has to be resisted or kept a mystery, but that heterosexuality is always a work in progress.

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

It’s Fiorina and Clinton, not Carly and Hillary

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date September 16, 2015

Excerpt: Naming is power, and how the press names and refers to candidates has everything to do with what values it assigns to them.

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

Terry Gross and Toni Morrison on Race, or Not

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 24, 2015

Academia Film, Art, Television, and Media

The Dude’s Response to the Steven Salaita Case

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 22, 2015

“Duuuuuuuudes, what were you thinking?”

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

Travel, Passports, and the Differences between Expats and Immigrants

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date July 26, 2015

Update, March 24, 2025: I wrote this a decade ago, and while matters have become much more stark for immigrants–and even white Europeans and Canadians have been forcibly detained at U.S borders recently, their race no longer any protection–class distinctions between immigrants still emerge and, I would argue, are being solidified in particular ways. I will have more in the coming months, over a series of essays.