Category: Queer Politics, Culture, and History

Private Parts & Public Sex

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date March 18, 2023

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

Pete Buttigieg Is Still Playing

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date March 5, 2023

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Feminism Film, Art, Television, and Media On Books and Publishing Queer Politics, Culture, and History

On J. K. Rowling, Pamela Paul, and the Logic of Virality

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date February 16, 2023

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Film, Art, Television, and Media Queer Politics, Culture, and History

On Sex, Marriage, And That White Lotus Finale

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date December 12, 2022

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

Losing Eve: Is That All There Is?

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date October 20, 2021

Excerpt: And, really, who cares?

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Gay Marriage Hate Crime Legislation Prison industrial complex Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

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.

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

I was on Montreal’s Queer Corps Radio Hour

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date July 30, 2020

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

Her Name Was Norma

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date June 22, 2020

With her, all our pasts — the queer one, the feminist one, and the ostensibly straight one — become infinitely more complicated, and infinitely richer.

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

The Charley Shively Prize in Gay Liberation and Activism

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date April 8, 2020

I’m pleased to announce that I’m the recepient of this year’s Charley Shively Prize in Gay Liberation and Activism.

Henri Fantin-Latour | Roses and Lilies | The Met

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

Anal Sex and Its Discontents: Emma Sulkowicz, Lawrence v. Texas, and the Histories of a Sex Act

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date January 7, 2020

Excerpt: It’s not that anal sex disrupts capitalism… but that it symbolises the dichotomy between public and private which also characterises the accumulation of capital.

Tags Artworld, Performance Art, Sex, sexuality, Sodomy Laws