Category: Prison industrial complex

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!

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Prison industrial complex Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Inclusion in the Atrocious, with Eli Massey

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date March 8, 2018

It is perverse to make people participate in an institution they deplore in order to access resources that should be guaranteed to all.

The Face of War, 1940 - 1941 - Salvador Dali

Chicago Chronicles Prison industrial complex Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Reporting

Talking with prison abolitionist Mariame Kaba

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date May 11, 2016

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Prison industrial complex

America’s Prison Problem Is Too Complicated for Mark Zuckerberg

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date October 26, 2015

Zuckerberg’s power and influence provides expensive cover for the brutality that the prison-industrial complex inflicts upon its inhabitants…

Broadway Boogie Woogie (1943) - Piet Mondrian

Gay Marriage Prison industrial complex Queer Politics, Culture, and History

Kim Davis Didn’t Deserve to Go to Jail

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date September 12, 2015

We have forgotten that prison is no laughing matter, especially for queer people.

Prison industrial complex

Are Private Prisons Really the Problem?

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date September 7, 2015

Prison industrial complex Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Justice for an Indian Grandpa, None for Black Bodies, and Affect and Questions Abound

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date February 18, 2015

The violence of exclusion practiced by immigrants whose biggest fear is that they might be identified as Black.

Tags Police Brutality

On Books and Publishing Prison industrial complex Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Review of Naomi Murakawa’s The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America.

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date October 4, 2014

The center of the carceral state is not, it turns out, the cold, frozen heart of the conservative dominated by an openly racist animus, but the warm, bleeding heart of liberalism, throbbing with feelings of goodness and tolerance.

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

“The Reign of Whitey Is Never Over”: Review of Orange Is the New Black, Season 2

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date June 11, 2014

If Season 1 made prison seem like Camp PrisonCanBeFun for girls, Season 2 is bleaker and filled with reminders that the only certainty about prison life, besides the roaches and the shit bubbling up through bad plumbing, is the absolute uncertainty.

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

My Interview with Laverne Cox in In These Times

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date February 21, 2014

“I’d be doing myself and my community a disservice if I didn’t speak in an intersectional way.”