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Her Name Was Norma

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date June 22, 2020

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

Anal Sex and Its Discontents: Emma Sulkowicz, Lawrence v. Texas, and the Histories of a Sex Act

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date January 7, 2020

Excerpt: It’s not that anal sex disrupts capitalism… but that it symbolises the dichotomy between public and private which also characterises the accumulation of capital.

Tags Artworld, Performance Art, Sex, sexuality, Sodomy Laws

Feminism Film, Art, Television, and Media Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Adopting Difference: Race, Sex, and the Archaeology of Power in the Farrow-Allen Case

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date January 7, 2020

Taking all these intertwining histories into account reveals an archaeology of power. This is not just a history of Farrow’s life, but a cultural history of the link between celebrity, adoption, and the idealisation of the nation-state.

Originally published May 3, 2014

British Painting - British 19th Century, Portrait Of An Unknown Family by Quint Lox

Tags Celebrity, Film, Hollywood, Mia Farrow, Television, Woody Allen

Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

On Desire

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date October 4, 2019

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Film, Art, Television, and Media Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

On Caroline Calloway and Whole Foods

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date October 1, 2019

Excerpt: We have always been defined by our thingness, our places in different economies, different kinds of circulation of value. We’ve only just learned how to make our thingnesses visible to each other.

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

MAGA Country: Streeterville and the Jussie Smollett Story

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date March 28, 2019

The city of Chicago is central to this story, but it has been ignored in all the coverage.

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Feminism Gay Marriage On Books and Publishing Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Polyamory Is Gay Marriage for Straight People

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date February 15, 2019

Excerpt: The problem with relationships is not that individuals engage in them in particular ways, but that systems compel individuals to relate to each other in particular ways.

Film, Art, Television, and Media Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

On Liam Neeson and the Erasure of the Idea of the Past

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date February 14, 2019

In this context, time as we understand it no longer exists, and has shifted into a permanent state of the ever-present; social media has served to flatten out time. There is no “was” in this scenario, only an “is.” We suffer from a permanent state of is-ness, engorged with anger.

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

On Nostalgia, Sex Work, and the Dancing Girls of Lahore

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date January 10, 2019

Excerpt: She wilfully erases the economic and political conditions they live in and weaponises their lives in the interest of a global nostalgia that has no basis in reality.

“ From the series The Beauties of Lucknow by Darogah Abbas Ali ca. 1874. ”

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

Your Trauma Is Your Passport: Hannah Gadsby, Nanette, and Global Citizenship

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date November 20, 2018

Excerpt: Nanette assures viewers, especially straight ones, that queers and women can and must be understood and assimilated by first understanding us as uniquely and literally broken and bashed in.