Category: Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Minority workshop focuses on LGBTQ families

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 1, 2008

LGBTQ families are frequently non-normative, and not just because they’re headed by queer people. Queer families may consist of single women raising children with sperm donors who maintains links with their offspring. Two men might raise children together even after breaking up.

Chicago Chronicles Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Reporting

Sex workers hold local conference

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date July 23, 2008

Sex Workers Outreach Project (SWOP), a national group that works on the decriminalization of prostitution, held its third annual conference in Chicago. Members attended panels on topics like sex trafficking and the issues facing transgender sex workers.

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

March highlights Boystown tensions

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date July 1, 2008

The Coalition for Justice and Respect organized a “Unity March Against Racism and Harassment” in the Boystown area. This was the latest such event in Chicago to address the tensions that have pitted youth of color against police officers, condo dwellers, and business owners.

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

Groups address police brutality

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date June 25, 2008

Chicago recently became a finalist in its bid to host the 2016 Olympics. An umbrella group of local activist organizations and Amnesty International USA (AIUSA) is using this media attention to highlight Chicago police brutality. At a June 19 press conference outside Mayor Daley”s office and an evening community forum at the Broadway United Methodist Church in Boystown, the group argued that Chicago did not have a right to host the Olympics given its record on police brutality, especially towards members of the LGBTQ community. Sponsors of the events included queer groups Amigas Latinas, Equality Illinois, and Gay Liberation Network.

On Books and Publishing Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Terrance Dean’s Hiding in Hip Hop: On the Down Low in the Entertainment Industry—from Music to Hollywood

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date June 25, 2008

Does simply being out solve the problems of an industry that makes enormous profits while paying pittances to some?

Hiding in Hip Hop: On the Down Low in the Entertainment Industry--from Music to Hollywood by [Dean, Terrance]

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Ready AND This Common Secret

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date May 7, 2008

Excerpt: The ability to reproduce and the ability to cease reproduction are mired in a complex entanglement of access and privilege.

Feminism Prison industrial complex Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Rape: The T-Shirt

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date April 23, 2008

Excerpt: We have privatized victimhood and are now privatizing criminalization.

Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Thomas Beatie’s pregnancy: What does it change?

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date April 9, 2008

The language of miracle-creation also obfuscates the embodied realities that face transgender people and/or people who raise children.

Chicago Chronicles On Books and Publishing Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Sin in the Second City

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date April 2, 2008

“Kindly tell, for me, all the psalm-singers to go to hell and stick the clergymen in an ash-can.”

On Books and Publishing Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Bob Smith’s Selfish & Perverse

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date February 27, 2008

“What had me worried was that I was an artsy, thirty-four-year-old man who needed to confront whether I was really talented or just gay.”