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Hello, hello!
Things are breaking fast, but many are stepping forward to unbreak them. More on that next week, perhaps. I am exhausted beyond measure, as is everyone I know. A lot is going on and, yes, everything you see on the news is true, and worse on the ground. Getting my brain cells in place for anything is enormously difficult, and I do thank you for your patience and kind support. I post a lot of news items and commentary (mine and that of others) on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook, and occasionally on LinkedIn. I can be found on Twitter (@NairYasmin) and Facebook (Yasmin.Nair), LinkedIn, and Instagram (Bekargyan). I am not accepting new friends on FB, but you can always use the “follow” option there.
Onwards.
NEW WORK!
I wrote about “Graham Platner and the Left’s Masculinity Crisis.”
Rupande Mehta has released part 2 of our conversation on contemporary politics, and you can now find both parts here.
I was quoted on hate crimes legislation in The Guardian; many thanks to Tyler Hicks.
And Lily Sánchez very kindly interviewed me for this, “Now Is Not the Time to Defund the Police,” in Current Affairs.
FROM THE ARCHIVE!
“Who Loves Teaching? Free Speech and the Myth of the Academy As a Place to Love and Be the Left.” (Let me know if you have trouble accessing it.)
“Who’s Left?: A Taxonomy of Sorts”
“On Kitchen Tables and Cultural Issues”
“The Perils of Trauma Feminism”
“The NYT Book Review Is Everything Book Criticism Shouldn’t Be”
“A Better Son Or Daughter: Donald Trump, amnesia, and a capitalist fable”
“When one’s trash is another’s . . . house cat”
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ELSEWHERE ON THE WEB!
This, by John Ross and Nathan J. Robinson, is an excellent and nuanced essay on why “No Kings” Protests Are Just Not Enough”
Truthout’s Luis Feliz Leon asks: “Seven Million Turn Out for “No Kings” Protests Nationwide. Next Up, Massive Disruptions Backed by Unions?”
Here’s Jay Kuo on National Guard deployments in blue cities: “Up Go the Stakes, Again.”
H. Kapp-Klote is an essential writer for our times: here’s his “ICE Wants Chicago to Be Afraid. It Isn’t Working.”
Here’s Kate Sosin on how “Intersex Awareness Day highlights a fight for rights that’s far from over, on The 19th.
The stolen Louvre jewellery has been found! (Okay, no, but.)
Queer icon Miss Major has died: here is an obituary by Toshio Meronek and Eric Stanley in Truthout.
This is an interesting piece on “grey spaces” for children.
People are using GoFundMe to raise money for food.
Some Namibians lion(esses) decided to move to the beach, for food and, perhaps, the view.
Here is the brilliant John Cale, with “Gideon’s Bible.” (“Holding on, with both eyes, to things that don’t exist…”)
If you missed last time’s Update, you can find “Tomorrow Is Another Day” here.
I will see you when I see you. Stay well.
Image: Lawren Harris, “In the Ward, Toronto,” 1917.
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