Category: Queer Politics, Culture, and History

CHM celebrates Rustin at 100

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date February 15, 2012

The Chicago History Museum hosted a presentation on Bayard Rustin, the late African-American and gay activist who organized the famed 1963 March on Washington D.C. The event, “Bayard Rustin at 100,” was part of the museum’s “Out at CHM” series.

Queer Politics, Culture, and History Yasmin's Media Appearances

DOMA Repeal: Interview with Denise Morris on KBOO, March 7, 2011

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date February 14, 2012

DOMA Repeal: Interview with Denise Morris on KBOO, March 7, 2011

Queer Politics, Culture, and History Yasmin's Media Appearances

Interview withTime Out Chicago, Oct. 6, 2010

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date February 14, 2012

Interview with Time Out Chicago: Oct. 6, 2010

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

The New Yorker Sheds More Light on the Clementi-Ravi Story

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date February 7, 2012

Can we grapple with the complexity of the truth instead of being seduced by the more palatable tale of good and evil?

Queer Politics, Culture, and History Yasmin's Media Appearances

Against Equality in Australia!

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date January 30, 2012

Feminism Gay Marriage Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Cynthia Nixon Is Not My Choice for A Hero

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date January 23, 2012

Cynthia Nixon was far more interesting as a straight woman than she is as a lesbian.

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Feminism Gay Marriage Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Fuck Love

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date November 1, 2011

Excerpt: We continue to pretend that the only people who can fuck you up are the people you fuck.

Gay Marriage Queer Politics, Culture, and History Yasmin's Media Appearances

“Neoliberalism’s Handiest Little Tool”: Against Equality Interview with Josh Pavan in No More Potlucks

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date July 6, 2011

You can marry naked and hanging upside down from a hot air balloon and share your marital bed with multiple strangers every day – none of that will change how the state endows your marriage with benefits it will not give to the unmarried.

Immigration Prison industrial complex Queer Politics, Culture, and History Yasmin's Media Appearances

An Interview with me and Ralowe T. Ampu for Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date June 29, 2011

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

My Modesty

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date June 19, 2011

Excerpt: Modesty represented power and an ability to reinvent oneself without giving a damn.