Category: Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

What Should We Do With Kansas?

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 5, 2022

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Feminism Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Organise Like The Right

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date June 26, 2022

Feminism Film, Art, Television, and Media Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Losing Eve: Is That All There Is?

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date October 20, 2021

Excerpt: And, really, who cares?

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

My Accent

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date October 2, 2021

Update, September 23, 2024: J.D Vance recently mocked Kamala Harris for deploying what he called a “fake” accent. This echoes Trump’s claim that Harris is faking her identity. Liberals everywhere are, rightly, pushing back against this kind of essentialism and racism, but as my essay below points out, the “left” is hardly impervious to identity policing. In my many years in left/radical organising, I, along with several others, have experienced pushback and mockery for not being properly Other enough. I’ll have a longer piece up soon-ish, about how the left polices identity, and my book in progress is partly an examination of this problem. But for now, enjoy this, from 2021. It’s also worth noting that I have since written about some of the events mentioned here, in “What Really Happened at Current Affairs?“

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Capitalism, Class, Inequality Chicago Chronicles Feminism Prison industrial complex Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

We Created R. Kelly

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date September 28, 2021

Politics Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

We Created the Cuomos

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 4, 2021

Excerpt: The public, watching, laughing, and cheering on these two brothers, was always fully complicit.

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Film, Art, Television, and Media Labour Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Granny Labour in Never Have I Ever

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date July 24, 2021

Excerpt: Never Have I Ever normalises her uprooting and her labour …and casts all of it as benign, adorable, and part of the fabric of Indian American life.