Category: Queer Politics, Culture, and History

Chicago Dyke March Collective hosts immigration forum

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date June 5, 2013

Since 2008, the Chicago Dyke March Collective (CDMC) has held its annual march in locations outside the city’s traditional Andersonville neighborhood. The CDMC has also, in recent years, sought to engage communities by organizing forums on topics relevant to the area it marches in.

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Florida lesbian teen won’t take plea on sex crime charge [Windy City Times Special Investigative Series: LGBTQs and the Criminal Legal System]

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date May 24, 2013

A Sebastian, Fla., teenager is being charged with a crime that could potentially place her on the state’s sex offender registry. At the same time, some publicly disseminated statements about her case appear to be inaccurate.

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Puerto Rican activist discusses life, poems

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date May 22, 2013

Luzma Umpierre-Herrera, a leading and out lesbian Puerto Rican poet and critic, was in Chicago this past week to present on her work.

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Beth Richie on race, gender and the ‘prison nation’

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date May 22, 2013

“Excerpt: I realized that in some ways the closing of the buildings doesn’t change all that much, because as we close more buildings, we put more people in ankle bracelets, under house arrest, or make their probation longer.”

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Howard Brown still facing struggles

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date May 21, 2013

Howard Brown Health Center’s (HBHC) former CEO and president Jamal Edwards departed the organization in August 2012, amid a flurry of complaints and questions about his management style and strategies.

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ENDA, We Hardly Know Ya

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date May 1, 2013

In other words, it’s completely legal to fire someone for any reason in more states than those where it’s legal to fire someone for being gay.

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HRC and the Illusion of a Grassroots Movement

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date April 29, 2013

But marriage, as represented by the giant equal sign, is seen as the silver bullet, despite the fact that gay marriage will help make rich gays and lesbians a lot richer and leave the rest of us behind.

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Gay Marriage’s Economic Underside

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date March 26, 2013

Gay marriage will become a way to make neoliberalism both palatable and more palpable, more an everyday part of our lives.

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I’m Profiled by Nico Lang on WBEZ’s Blog

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date March 25, 2013

“We often believe that queerness resists neoliberalism, and it really doesn’t.”

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Hate Crimes, Exceptionalism, and the State’s Order to Kill

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date December 29, 2012

When we focus on who commits such acts, we conveniently forget why they happen in the first place. And then, of course, it allows us to forget a simple fact: no one actually deserves to die a violent and senseless death.

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