Category: Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Angelina Jolie, Queer Theory, and the Gods of Neoliberalism

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date September 21, 2007

Excerpt: ‘Sybil,’ it turns out, may barely have had one personality, leave alone sixteen. Much like Angelina, whose wild queerness turns out to have hidden a saintly girl who marries half the people with whom she sleeps.”

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Kenny Fries’ The History of My Shoes and the Evolution of Darwin’s Theory

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 29, 2007

Interesting ideas don’t always make for compelling books.

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Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys: True Tales of Love, Lust, and Friendship between Straight Women and Gay Men

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 1, 2007

It’s not the fag hag who’s dead—it’s the fag.

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Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date July 4, 2007

“I’d been upstaged, demoted from protagonist in my own drama to comic relief in my parents’ tragedy.”

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Who Needs Larry Kramer?: A resurrected ACT UP does not a progressive queer agenda make

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date June 1, 2007

When you have queers simultaneously fighting against a war and for the right to fight in it, the end of the world seems nigh.

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Barbara Kingsolver’s Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date May 16, 2007

It never occurs to an otherwise progressive-minded Kingsolver that her project might replicate the United States’ political isolationism

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Todd Taylor’s Shirley Wins

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date May 9, 2007

Excerpt: Punk’s political power once lay, at least in part, in its refusal to live by categorizations, and its defiance of the imperative to grow up, settle down and pretend that there is nothing new to learn or live for after a point.