Categories Politics Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Your Sex Is Not Radical Post author By Yasmin Nair Post date June 28, 2015 Excerpt: How many people you fuck has nothing to do with the extent to which you fuck up capitalism. Continue reading “Your Sex Is Not Radical”
Categories Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality The Difference between Black and White Guilt Post author By Yasmin Nair Post date June 14, 2015 Continue reading “The Difference between Black and White Guilt”
Categories Academia Capitalism, Class, Inequality Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Rachel Dolezal and the Materiality of Race Post author By Yasmin Nair Post date June 13, 2015 Continue reading “Rachel Dolezal and the Materiality of Race”
Categories Film, Art, Television, and Media Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Emma Sulkowicz’s Rape Video: Some Thoughts Post author By Yasmin Nair Post date June 8, 2015 It also reflects the cultural identity of an art world that can no longer afford to take any real risks. Continue reading “Emma Sulkowicz’s Rape Video: Some Thoughts”
Categories Academia Animals Capitalism, Class, Inequality Labour On Books and Publishing Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Working Skin: Joseph Hankins Writes about Leather, Japan’s Buraku People, and Global Circuits of Identity Formation Post author By Yasmin Nair Post date April 1, 2015 “This is an attempt to trace the conditions that reproduce the logic of the suffering/savage slot, even as I position my own work within those conditions.” Continue reading “Working Skin: Joseph Hankins Writes about Leather, Japan’s Buraku People, and Global Circuits of Identity Formation”
Categories 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. Continue reading “Justice for an Indian Grandpa, None for Black Bodies, and Affect and Questions Abound” Tags Police Brutality
Categories 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. Continue reading “The Gay Marriage Campaign Shamelessly Exploits Martin Luther King”
Categories 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. Continue reading “Liberal Feminists and the Runaway Train of “Statistics””
Categories 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.” Continue reading “Rolling Stone Now Has “Reservations” about Its UVA Rape Story”
Categories 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. Continue reading “On the Scent of Cum, Steam, and Gentrification” Tags Bathhouses
