Category: Queer Politics, Culture, and History

Minority workshop focuses on LGBTQ families

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 1, 2008

LGBTQ families are frequently non-normative, and not just because they’re headed by queer people. Queer families may consist of single women raising children with sperm donors who maintains links with their offspring. Two men might raise children together even after breaking up.

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

Sex workers hold local conference

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date July 23, 2008

Sex Workers Outreach Project (SWOP), a national group that works on the decriminalization of prostitution, held its third annual conference in Chicago. Members attended panels on topics like sex trafficking and the issues facing transgender sex workers.

On Books and Publishing Queer Politics, Culture, and History

Alistair McCartney’s The End of the World Book: A Novel

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date July 16, 2008

This is the sort of book writers might write for other writers.

On Books and Publishing Queer Politics, Culture, and History

Michael Luongo’s Gay Travels in the Muslim World

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date July 2, 2008

When it comes to travel, it seems that only Westerners travel ironically and self-consciously and write tales of their adventures, while Easterners merely fester in their chains.

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

March highlights Boystown tensions

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date July 1, 2008

The Coalition for Justice and Respect organized a “Unity March Against Racism and Harassment” in the Boystown area. This was the latest such event in Chicago to address the tensions that have pitted youth of color against police officers, condo dwellers, and business owners.

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

Groups address police brutality

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date June 25, 2008

Chicago recently became a finalist in its bid to host the 2016 Olympics. An umbrella group of local activist organizations and Amnesty International USA (AIUSA) is using this media attention to highlight Chicago police brutality. At a June 19 press conference outside Mayor Daley”s office and an evening community forum at the Broadway United Methodist Church in Boystown, the group argued that Chicago did not have a right to host the Olympics given its record on police brutality, especially towards members of the LGBTQ community. Sponsors of the events included queer groups Amigas Latinas, Equality Illinois, and Gay Liberation Network.

On Books and Publishing Queer Politics, Culture, and History

David Trinidad’s The Late Show: Poems

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date June 11, 2008

What can we say, after all, about relationships that are not bound by conventional notions of love but are nonetheless as intense as this, and which are denied the language of sentiment?

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

Friendship in the Time of Love

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date February 14, 2008

I realise I have nothing to prove to someone who’s simply not part of my tribe.

Immigration Queer Politics, Culture, and History

Queers and Immigration Reform: Where Do We Stand?

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date January 10, 2008

Relocating and/or moving between two countries can be difficult and taxing but that, my friends, is not exile. That’s mobility.

Gay Marriage Immigration Queer Politics, Culture, and History

Queer Immigration: Change the Paradigms

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date January 9, 2008

The emphasis on documented couples as more deserving of protection undermines progress towards immigration reform that benefits all immigrants, undocumented or not, single or otherwise.