Yasmin Nair

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Chicago Chronicles

On the Obamas as Nouveaux Riches

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 19, 2021

Excerpt: Who among us, including landed gentry and nobility with four-hundred-year-old castles, are not always already nouveaux in our riches?

Updates

Update: August 17

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 18, 2021

Animals Pandemic

Grief

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 17, 2021

Politics Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

We Created the Cuomos

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 4, 2021

Excerpt: The public, watching, laughing, and cheering on these two brothers, was always fully complicit.

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Chicago Chronicles Politics

Obama’s Birthday Bash Is For Neoliberal Elites

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 4, 2021

Excerpt: As the first neoliberal president, the first such to think about himself as not merely a public figure but as an economic entity, Obama needed to monetise his legacy and make himself a desirable commodity that could in turn create an empire of wealth and influence for the elites he had cultivated over his eight years.

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Update: August 3

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 3, 2021

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Pandemic

Stop Blaming the Unvaccinated

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date July 26, 2021

Excerpt: If we really want to control this pandemic, we need to think of broad systemic changes which involve more vaccinations, yes, but also ways of actually taking care of everyone, including those infected and unvaccinated.

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

Granny Labour in Never Have I Ever

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date July 24, 2021

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

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date July 21, 2021

Feminism On Books and Publishing

“Cat Person” Will Never Die

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date July 20, 2021

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.