Categories 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. Continue reading “Thomas Beatie’s pregnancy: What does it change?”
Categories 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.” Continue reading “Sin in the Second City”
Categories 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.” Continue reading “Bob Smith’s Selfish & Perverse”
Categories Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Friendship in the Time of Love Post author By Yasmin Nair Post date February 14, 2008 Continue reading “Friendship in the Time of Love”
Categories Feminism On Books and Publishing Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Jean Thompson’s Throw Like a Girl Post author By Yasmin Nair Post date December 26, 2007 “It seemed you ought to be able to aim desire like a lens, and pass your longing straight through it. Maybe I was simply out of range.” Continue reading “Jean Thompson’s Throw Like a Girl”
Categories Academia Feminism Film, Art, Television, and Media Gay Marriage Queer Politics, Culture, and History 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.” Continue reading “Angelina Jolie, Queer Theory, and the Gods of Neoliberalism”
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”
