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Category: Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

The Difference between Black and White Guilt

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date June 14, 2015

Rachel Dolezal and the Materiality of Race

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date June 13, 2015

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.

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.”

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 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.