Category: Queer Politics, Culture, and History

Gay Marriage Queer Politics, Culture, and History

Charles Manson and Gay Marriage

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date November 18, 2014

“Seems oddly appropriate since marriage is a prison sentence.”

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Queer Politics, Culture, and History

Introverts and the Kinsey Scale

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date November 9, 2014

Excerpt: Introverts are not Magical and Special People; they can be assholes like everyone else.

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

On the Scent of Cum, Steam, and Gentrification

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date October 15, 2014

Excerpt: Every neighbourhood needs its bathhouse, and there was nothing like jizz in the air to make me feel at home.

Tags Bathhouses

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

“The Reign of Whitey Is Never Over”: Review of Orange Is the New Black, Season 2

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date June 11, 2014

If Season 1 made prison seem like Camp PrisonCanBeFun for girls, Season 2 is bleaker and filled with reminders that the only certainty about prison life, besides the roaches and the shit bubbling up through bad plumbing, is the absolute uncertainty.

Chicago Chronicles Feminism Queer Politics, Culture, and History Reporting

Statue stolen from HBHC Peace Garden again

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date April 13, 2014

A statue commemorating the late Mary York, the lesbian attorney and community activist who died of cancer in 2008, has been stolen from the Howard Brown Health Center ( HBHC ) Peace Garden.

Chicago Chronicles Queer Politics, Culture, and History Reporting

As Munar leaves, John Peller discusses taking over AFC

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date April 2, 2014

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

My Interview with Laverne Cox in In These Times

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date February 21, 2014

“I’d be doing myself and my community a disservice if I didn’t speak in an intersectional way.”

Chicago Chronicles Queer Politics, Culture, and History Reporting

David Munar will head Howard Brown center [includes video interview]

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date February 12, 2014

Longtime AIDS and LGBT health advocate David Munar will take over the troubled Howard Brown Health Center ( HBHC ) as its new president and CEO starting April 1.

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

Pratibah Parmar discusses Alice Walker’s ‘Truth’

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date February 5, 2014

Pratibha Parmar is an acclaimed filmmaker, among the first of a generation of queer British filmmakers who were also people of color. Among her many noteworthy films are Reframing AIDS (1987) and Khush (1991). In 1993, she made Warrior Marks, a film about female genital mutilation, based on a book by Alice Walker and Parmar. Warrior Marks was controversial amongst many who opposed Walker and Parmar’s political stance against FGM, but cemented a long-standing collaboration and friendship between the two women.

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

My review of the Queer Art Show, “Strange Bedfellows,” Chicago Reader

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date January 29, 2014

It leaves open the many questions it raises: What do we mean by queer art today? Who makes it? Do we still need it?