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

Granny Labour in Never Have I Ever

Excerpt: Never Have I Ever normalises her uprooting and her labour …and casts all of it as benign, adorable, and part of the fabric of Indian American life.

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Update: July 20

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Feminism On Books and Publishing

“Cat Person” Will Never Die

Excerpt: Sometimes you create a monster and are proud of the havoc it wreaks upon the world.  Sometimes you create a monster and watch it do its thing and then realise that it has just turned around and is about to devour you. 

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Immigration

DACA Was Always DOA: Let’s End It Now

Excerpt: DACA doesn’t need to be fortified. DACA needs to die. 

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Pandemic Updates Yasmin's Media Appearances

Update: July 6

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Updates Yasmin's Media Appearances

The Biggest Update of All Time

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Capitalism, Class, Inequality Gay Marriage Hate Crime Legislation Prison industrial complex Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

On Kink at Pride

Excerpt: The really radical act is to question the idea that any sexual act is somehow in itself transgressive.

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

Jolene, Jolene, Jolene: On Blackness in Queen’s Gambit

Excerpt: But what if a more nuanced portrayal of their relationship, one that acknowledged that initial shock, existed? 

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Capitalism, Class, Inequality On Books and Publishing

The Publishing World Is Like Fyre Fest

Excerpt: It’s a lifestyle many writers yearn for: unhurried, complacent, lots of manufactured insouciance, and lots of money to write about it all. 

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Film, Art, Television, and Media

Zombie Breasts

Excerpt: There need be no ponderous moments of tenderness or human connection. 

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