Category: Gay Marriage

Gay Marriage Ruined Everything

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date July 6, 2023

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Private Parts & Public Sex

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date March 18, 2023

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On Kink at Pride

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date June 8, 2021

Excerpt: The really radical act is to question the idea that any sexual act is somehow in itself transgressive.

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American Gay: Pete Buttigieg and the Politics of Forgetting

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date June 18, 2019

Excerpt: The problem with Pete Buttigieg is not that he is homonormative or assimilationist, but that he represents a new will to forgetfulness on the part of the United States, a will embedded in a desire to recreate not just this country but the world in the cast of a new, gayer imperialism.

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“Forget Stonewall,” in The Gay and Lesbian Review

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date April 27, 2019

The point in forgetting Stonewall is to hold on to the much more difficult task of thinking about “event-ness” and history in more complicated ways.

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Polyamory Is Gay Marriage for Straight People

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date February 15, 2019

Excerpt: The problem with relationships is not that individuals engage in them in particular ways, but that systems compel individuals to relate to each other in particular ways.

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Rights Make Might: The Dystopian Undertow of Hillary Clinton’s Elite Feminism

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date December 1, 2016

Liberal feminism is, by and large, also a carceral feminism: wedded to the idea that the only way to protect and preserve the rights of women is to turn to the prison–industrial complex as the final enforcer of gender justice.

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Choose Your Elite: Edith Windsor, Hillary Clinton, or Donald Trump

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date October 6, 2016

Excerpt: Only the privileged get to jump on lifeboats to safety leaving everyone else to drown in seas of debt and poverty.

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“The Political Is Political”: I’m Profiled in Salvage

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date July 25, 2016

“But, as compelling and scandalising as her campaigning around gay marriage with Against Equality is, it is far from the only place she’s causing a stir.”

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How Gay Money Became Gay Wealth: A Fable

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date January 27, 2016

Excerpt: This is not a woman who was hit hard by the taxes but, rather, someone angry that she had to pay them in the first place.