Category: Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Complicity, Not Tyranny: The Anger over Lori Szala’s Abortion Article

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date May 18, 2017

Abortion rights are as good as nil in this country.

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Bitches of Capitalism: My Speech on International Working Women’s Day, March 8

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date March 17, 2017

I was invited by the Chicago Socialist Party to speak about and on International Working Women’s Day, March 8. My thanks to all the organisers, and to the many amazing people who showed up — and stayed — through all my words and those of my co-presenters, Tobita Chow, Erica Nanton, Red Schulte, Zerlina Smith, and Rehmah Sufi.* You can watch a video here; below is the text of the speech.

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From Queer To Gay: The Rise and Fall of Milo

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date February 28, 2017

Excerpt: What brought Milo down was not his queerness, which had always been flamboyantly on display and fetishised by the Right and the Left, but that he became, with the few short seconds of a video clip, irrevocably gay.

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Bourgeois Feminist Bullshit: The Rebecca Traister View of Gender and the World

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date February 21, 2017

Single status is now no longer a blight upon the land but a set of Very Useful Functions that keep the economy running smoothly.

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Joshua Marston’s Complete Unknown: Or, When Critics Respond To A Woman Who Lives Like A Man

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date February 8, 2017

Both Variety and the Times describe Weisz’s character as a “femme fatale,” even though there’s no hint that she enters her various lives by feminine wiles.

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“March as Feminists, Not As Women” Now Up On Verso’s Blog

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date January 21, 2017

A women’s march is terrified of or angry at a monstrous man, a feminist one understands how to vanquish the system that birthed him. Tomorrow, march as a feminist, not as a woman.

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Should You March Against Trump?

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date January 19, 2017

To put it bluntly: Everything you are marching to prevent, dear marchers, has already come to pass.

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Donald Trump Won Because Hillary Clinton Lost

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date December 8, 2016

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Rights Make Might: The Dystopian Undertow of Hillary Clinton’s Elite Feminism

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date December 1, 2016

Liberal feminism is, by and large, also a carceral feminism: wedded to the idea that the only way to protect and preserve the rights of women is to turn to the prison–industrial complex as the final enforcer of gender justice.

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Welcome to The Morning After: November 17, 2016

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date November 17, 2016

The way ahead for the left is not to cede both discourse and imagination, but to think about how to expand on both to make itself felt as a living, breathing, entity that offers several wild and fantastic possibilities, utopias even, in a frightened and frightening world.