Categories 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. Continue reading “Oscars: Diversity Is Not the Problem”
Categories 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. Continue reading “How Gay Money Became Gay Wealth: A Fable”
Categories 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 Continue reading “Twitter Trials: Why I Am Writing about Suey Park”
Categories 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 Continue reading “On Power Couples”
Categories 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 Continue reading “What We Don’t Talk about When We Talk about Race”
Categories 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. Continue reading “It’s Fiorina and Clinton, not Carly and Hillary”
Categories 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. Continue reading “On Rentboy, Sex Panics, Feminism, and More”
Categories Film, Art, Television, and Media Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Terry Gross and Toni Morrison on Race, or Not Post author By Yasmin Nair Post date August 24, 2015 Continue reading “Terry Gross and Toni Morrison on Race, or Not”
Categories Politics Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Hillary Clinton, Sexism, and Black Lives Matter Post author By Yasmin Nair Post date August 18, 2015 This is sexist bullshit, and we need to call it what it is. Continue reading “Hillary Clinton, Sexism, and Black Lives Matter”
Categories Feminism Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality We Are Strangers Here: Notes Towards An Anti-Memoir Post author By Yasmin Nair Post date July 24, 2015 Continue reading “We Are Strangers Here: Notes Towards An Anti-Memoir”
