Category: Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

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.

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“Racism and the American Pit Bull” My Review of Pit Bull: The Battle over an American Icon

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date September 19, 2016

In the tautology established around pit bulls, all pit bulls are dangerous dogs and all dangerous dogs are pit bulls.

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

Meryl Streep Is in Costume as Florence Foster Jenkins

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date September 1, 2016

Excerpt: Imagine the iconic figure of the young woman holding up a little black dog. Consider the impressionistic lushnesss of the image. Now imagine that someone has come along, cut out the woman, and replaced her with a photographic image of a woman with a dog.

Feminism Politics Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Anthony Weiner, Huma Abedin, and the Gender of Power

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 29, 2016

Excerpt: To point out that two such high-placed women in the world’s most powerful country had to negotiate their political lives through those of their husbands is not sexist: It simply points to the incredible sexism that still undergirds our political structure.

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Whose Gay History?: Review of Queer Clout

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 25, 2016

Segregation in this city is not some genteel agreement between the races and ethnicities to quietly live away from each other.

Animals Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

My Piece on “Racism and the American Pit Bull” Is Now Online at Current Affairs

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 11, 2016

The links between “animality” and race have always been vividly present even if never explicitly discussed.

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

Ghostbusters, Hillary Clinton, and Faux Feminism

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 6, 2016

We’re not obliged to prop up faux feminism: We can and should expect films that actually make strong feminist statements embedded in excellent writing and character development.

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“The Political Is Political”: I’m Profiled in Salvage

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date July 25, 2016

“But, as compelling and scandalising as her campaigning around gay marriage with Against Equality is, it is far from the only place she’s causing a stir.”

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Talking with prison abolitionist Mariame Kaba

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date May 11, 2016

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

Maurice Sendak on Tomi Ungerer, and The King’s Speech

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date May 2, 2016

“Like we give a shit whether he stuttered or not. And you know, that’s just dumb. That’s just so dumb.“