Category: 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.

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

Celebrity Nude Photos and Sexual Assault: Some Thoughts

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date September 3, 2014

At the heart of all this manufactured outrage lies barely suppressed anger at the projected violation of white women.

Tags Celebrity, Hollywood

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.

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

Why Now? Introducing the Allen-Farrow Series

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date May 1, 2014

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Feminism On Books and Publishing Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

My Review of Sex Workers Unite!

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date March 16, 2014

The history of urban centers is, in palpable ways, the history of their sex workers.

Sex Workers Unite: A History of the Movement from Stonewall to SlutWalk by [Chateauvert, Melinda]

Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

The Refusal to Fuck

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date March 4, 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.”

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.