Category: 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

Excerpt: I have very little in this world but my accent, which springs forth unbidden, has often saved me in some very, very sticky situations. That’s life. I use whatever powers I have.

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.

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Gay Marriage Hate Crime Legislation Prison industrial complex Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

On Kink at Pride

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date June 8, 2021

Excerpt: The really radical act is to question the idea that any sexual act is somehow in itself transgressive.

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

Jolene, Jolene, Jolene: On Blackness in Queen’s Gambit

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date June 4, 2021

Excerpt: But what if a more nuanced portrayal of their relationship, one that acknowledged that initial shock, existed?

Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Updates Yasmin's Media Appearances

A Plan A Podcast on Celebrity, Adoption and Power

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date May 17, 2021

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

Adoption and the Burden of Whiteness

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date May 17, 2021

Excerpt: The problems facing adoptees of colour and white adoptees are different in many ways but no matter their colour, adoptees inevitably face the burdens of race.