Category: Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Queer Sucides: Complicate the Issue

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date October 13, 2010

“Just as anti-depression pills are being handed out like candy to people in my generation, gay marriage is offered as the magic bullet to solve all of our gay woes.”

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Make Art! Change the World! Starve!: The Fallacy of Art as Social Justice – Part I

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 12, 2010

Excerpt: For the most part, arts and social justice funding is infused with the aura of nobility, combining the portrait of the penniless but determined artist with the desire and drive to change the world.

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Such Beastly Love: Animals and Affect in a Neoliberal World

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 7, 2010

Excerpt: All around us, animals penetrate capital.

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What’s Left of Queer?: Immigration, Sexuality, and Affect in a Neoliberal World

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 7, 2010

Excerpt: You can have your identity, or you can have your rights as a worker. But it’s increasingly difficult to have both.

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Rebecca Skloot’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 4, 2010

Skloot’s remarkable book parallels a deeply important story about a scientific breakthrough with an equally riveting one about the human subjects whose active and inactive participation helped make it possible.

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Which of the Busted Prostitutes Is A Man?: On NBC’s “Dude Looks Like A Lady”

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 3, 2010

We are explicitly being asked to look at their faces very, very closely and make sure they have fulfilled all our cultural expectations.

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Why I won’t Come Out on National Coming Out Day

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 3, 2010

By placing so much emphasis on the act of revealing…we are implicitly arguing that to be queer is, in effect, to always have to come out.

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Lesbian teen pregnancy rates

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 2, 2010

“I’m really tired of the emphasis on the closet…”

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Dykewomon, Brier: It’s all relative in WC&F talk

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 1, 2010

The historic Women and Children First Bookstore witnessed an equally historic and unique family literary event when Jennifer Brier and Elana Dykewomon co-presented their separate and recent works March 20.

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Partner violence among forum topics

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date July 30, 2010

Violence is usually discussed within the context of heterosexual families and social groups. It’s widely assumed that people in same-sex households, communities, and relationships are either incapable of causing harm to each other, or that their needs can’t be met by mainstream anti-violence groups. As a result, significant issues like intimate partner violence or the particular needs of transgender youth seeking shelter from abusive homes are not addressed. This leaves portions of the LGBTQ community without the conventional resources available to heterosexuals who seek relief from abuse.