Category: 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.

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

All the White Ladies: The Real Dinosaurs of Murphy Brown

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date November 13, 2018

All the white ladies, from Hillary Clinton to Diane English to Candice Bergen and the fictional Murphy Brown, living in a past only they recall fondly and refusing to confront the realities of the present.

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

Asia Argento and Avital Ronell Or, Humans Are the Worst People

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 22, 2018

Naming power isn’t really enough if the primary aim is to simply shift power around, and #MeToo’s supporters and “leaders” haven’t really done all that much to change that conversation.

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

A Monica for Our Time: Reinventing Sex and Trauma in the Age of #MeToo

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date March 10, 2018

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Prison industrial complex Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Inclusion in the Atrocious, with Eli Massey

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date March 8, 2018

It is perverse to make people participate in an institution they deplore in order to access resources that should be guaranteed to all.

The Face of War, 1940 - 1941 - Salvador Dali

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

On Cultural Purity

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date November 1, 2017

If the Cultural Purity Police (CPP) had their way, they would brand British curry as theft, but every cuisine consists of an infinite number of borrowings and travels, sometimes stretching back millennia.

Academia Capitalism, Class, Inequality On Books and Publishing Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

When Academics Attack: My Piece Critiquing Academia Is Blocked by Lefties Complaining about Censorship

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date June 14, 2017

Today, academics are only dangerous to those on the left, like me, who dare question its fragile sense of self-worth and “danger.”

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

Abortive Reasoning: What’s Wrong with the Reproductive Rights Debate

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date June 1, 2017

The tyranny of experience in abortion rights discourse has potentially disastrous consequences.

vintage photo frightened woman from True Romance

Feminism On Books and Publishing 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.

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Chicago Chronicles Labour Politics Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

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.