Writer, Academic, Activist, Commentator

Category: Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Confession, Neoliberalism, and The Big Reveal

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date December 6, 2013

No tragic dramas? Make them up! But, always: Confess and Reveal.

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

My Review of “Resisterectomy” in the Chicago Reader and Chicago Sun-Times

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date December 3, 2013

“Resisterectomy” locates gender not as a finite end but as a more fraught series of questions.

Capitalism, Class, Inequality On Books and Publishing Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Margot Weiss talks BDSM and sexuality

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date October 30, 2013

“I’ll leave this with Patrick Califia’s words: ‘I do not believe that we can fuck our way to freedom.'”

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Why Is America Turning to Shit?

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date October 30, 2013

Excerpt: If we are to truly reimagine the place of shit in our lives, we need to consider the harsh realities of who gets to shit in peace, and who gets to clean it up afterwards.

Capitalism, Class, Inequality On Books and Publishing Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

No More City on a Hill: Interview with Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date October 23, 2013

Because it’s when you really believe in people, that’s when they can really let you down.

Hate Crime Legislation On Books and Publishing Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Review of Stephen Jimenez’s new book, The Book of Matt

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date October 16, 2013

In the annals of vengeance disguised as justice, the point, it seemed, was not to condemn the murders committed by the state, but to celebrate innocence.

Feminism Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Are We Fabulous Yet?

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date October 3, 2013

What happens to those who don’t transition so beautifully?

Academia Chicago Chronicles Prison industrial complex Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Reporting

Trans activist Dean Spade holds court at DePaul

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date September 30, 2013

Noted trans activist, attorney, Sylvia Rivera Law Project (SRLP) founder and author Dean Spade was in Chicago presenting on his book, Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law. The event took place Sept. 24 in the DePaul Student Center.

Chicago Chronicles Feminism Prison industrial complex Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Reporting

Angela Davis on Guns, Violence, and History

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date September 9, 2013

Prison industrial complex Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Reporting

Kaitlyn Hunt update: more controversy

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 25, 2013

Kaitlyn Hunt, the Sebastian, Fla., teenager who was charged with having sex with a minor girl, has recently found herself in more controversy and in jail. On August 19, Hunt was brought to the Indian River County Jail by her bail/bond agent and booked, according to reports.