Category: Queer Politics, Culture, and History

My WBEZ (NPR Chicago) interview about Illinois Civil Unions

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date June 17, 2011

On Books and Publishing Queer Politics, Culture, and History

Interview with John D’Emilio about Allan Bérubé’s “My Desire for History”

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date June 8, 2011

Politics Queer Politics, Culture, and History

Anti-gay adoption bill narrowly defeated in committee by seven votes to six

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date April 21, 2011

Breaking News

Originally appeared in Windy City Times on April 13, 2011

In a narrow victory for gay rights activists SB 1123, which would have effectively allowed religious child welfare and adoption agencies to bar adoptions and foster care by gay parents was just struck down.

Immigration Prison industrial complex Queer Politics, Culture, and History

National Immigrant Justice Center files mass civil rights complaint on behalf of LGBT immigrant detainees

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date April 21, 2011

Breaking News

Originally published in Windy City Times, April 15, 2011

The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC), a project of the Heartland Alliance, recently released a mass civil rights complaint about the “abuse and mistreatment” of thirteen immigrant detainees in the custody of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The complaint was filed with the DHS’s Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties and Office of Inspector General on April 13.

On Books and Publishing Prison industrial complex Queer Politics, Culture, and History

Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date February 2, 2011

It persuasively argues that innocence is a shifting category, contingent on visible markers of race and class privilege.

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

Queer Sucides: Complicate the Issue

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date October 13, 2010

“Just as anti-depression pills are being handed out like candy to people in my generation, gay marriage is offered as the magic bullet to solve all of our gay woes.”

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Film, Art, Television, and Media On Books and Publishing Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Make Art! Change the World! Starve!: The Fallacy of Art as Social Justice – Part I

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 12, 2010

Excerpt: For the most part, arts and social justice funding is infused with the aura of nobility, combining the portrait of the penniless but determined artist with the desire and drive to change the world.