Category: Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Prison industrial complex Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Justice for an Indian Grandpa, None for Black Bodies, and Affect and Questions Abound

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date February 18, 2015

The violence of exclusion practiced by immigrants whose biggest fear is that they might be identified as Black.

Tags Police Brutality

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

Larry Kramer, The Imitation Game, and the Gay Obsession With Exceptionalism

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date January 27, 2015

No one person, not even a fictionalised heroic gay genius, was responsible for “winning” a war whose convoluted political stakes have long been drowned out in public blather about the forces of good and evil.

Gay Marriage Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

The Gay Marriage Campaign Shamelessly Exploits Martin Luther King

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date January 19, 2015

As gay marriage becomes legal everywhere in the United States, marriage activists will eventually drop their pretenses at being inclusive.

Feminism Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Liberal Feminists and the Runaway Train of “Statistics”

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date December 11, 2014

Statistics are like Rorschach tests; they can be made to reveal anything at all.

Academia Feminism Film, Art, Television, and Media Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Rolling Stone Now Has “Reservations” about Its UVA Rape Story

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date December 5, 2014

I want us to think about rape as it happens situationally, not as “rape culture.”

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

On Books and Publishing Prison industrial complex Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Review of Naomi Murakawa’s The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America.

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date October 4, 2014

The center of the carceral state is not, it turns out, the cold, frozen heart of the conservative dominated by an openly racist animus, but the warm, bleeding heart of liberalism, throbbing with feelings of goodness and tolerance.

Film, Art, Television, and Media Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Danièle Watts, Sexual Respectability, and Talking to Cops

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date September 19, 2014

Watts’ insistence on simply having experienced pleasure while fully clothed does nothing really to advance a more complicated idea of what counts as pleasure in public.

Feminism Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

It’s a Foetus, Not an Unborn Child

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date September 14, 2014

The mother is capable of making her own decisions and if she wants to abort a foetus, yes, a foetus for any reason whatsoever, she’s well within her rights to do so.