Category: Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Suey Park and the Afterlife of Twitter

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date April 4, 2016

Excerpt: Twitter is not merely a symptom of a public sphere but a platform that is bound up with the primary dictate of neoliberalism: Make yourself or die.

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

Suey Park: Images

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date April 3, 2016

This document is a collection of images referenced in “Suey Park and the Afterlife of Twitter.” It will be constantly updated with more as the series progresses.

All images are screencaps from public Instagram and Twitter accounts.

Feminism On Books and Publishing Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

The Feminist Utopia Project Isn’t Utopian Just Yet

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date March 8, 2016

The problem here is that greed is situated as an emotional and cultural value, rather than as what it is: a structural component of capitalism.

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

Oscars: Diversity Is Not the Problem

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date February 29, 2016

The Academy operates like a corporation, and like every corporation it will work hard to maintain its facade of diversity.

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Gay Marriage Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

How Gay Money Became Gay Wealth: A Fable

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date January 27, 2016

Excerpt: This is not a woman who was hit hard by the taxes but, rather, someone angry that she had to pay them in the first place.

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

Twitter Trials: Why I Am Writing about Suey Park

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date December 15, 2015

Feminism Gay Marriage Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

On Power Couples

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date November 15, 2015

Power couples are scum multiplied into two.

Politics Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

What We Don’t Talk about When We Talk about Race

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date October 20, 2015

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

It’s Fiorina and Clinton, not Carly and Hillary

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date September 16, 2015

Excerpt: Naming is power, and how the press names and refers to candidates has everything to do with what values it assigns to them.

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

On Rentboy, Sex Panics, Feminism, and More

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 25, 2015

The gay press, such as it is, remains, with few exceptions, incapable of having the talent or the resources to do any kind of real investigative work on this story.