Categories On Books and Publishing Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality 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. Continue reading “Kenny Fries’ The History of My Shoes and the Evolution of Darwin’s Theory”
Categories On Books and Publishing Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality 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. Continue reading “Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys: True Tales of Love, Lust, and Friendship between Straight Women and Gay Men”
Categories Film, Art, Television, and Media On Books and Publishing Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality 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.” Continue reading “Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic”
Categories Gay Marriage Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality 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. Continue reading “Who Needs Larry Kramer?: A resurrected ACT UP does not a progressive queer agenda make”
Categories Animals On Books and Publishing Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality 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 Continue reading “Barbara Kingsolver’s Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life”
Categories On Books and Publishing Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality 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. Continue reading “Todd Taylor’s Shirley Wins”
Categories Film, Art, Television, and Media On Books and Publishing Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Rupert Everett’s Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins: The Autobiography Post author By Yasmin Nair Post date April 25, 2007 Now, to be a celebrity was to become a logo. Continue reading “Rupert Everett’s Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins: The Autobiography”
Categories On Books and Publishing Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality A Different Take on Irshad Manji Post author By Yasmin Nair Post date April 1, 2007 She fully understands that history is made by those in power. She consistently opposes those who don’t defer to power. Continue reading “A Different Take on Irshad Manji”
Categories Capitalism, Class, Inequality Feminism Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality American Home: Trafficking and the Return of Domesticity Post author By Yasmin Nair Post date July 1, 2006 Excerpt: Sex trafficking stories are symptomatic of our uneasy relationship with a new global economy. Continue reading “American Home: Trafficking and the Return of Domesticity”
Categories Feminism Gay Marriage Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality The Gay Movement is Over Post author By Yasmin Nair Post date April 4, 2006 The fight for gay marriage directly contributes to inequality in America. Continue reading “The Gay Movement is Over”
