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What Should We Do With Kansas?

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 5, 2022

Updates Yasmin's Media Appearances

The Biggest Update of All Time

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date June 20, 2021

Politics

Should You Vote?

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date September 6, 2020

Instead of raging only about the larger political system, look closely at the institutions that have for so long granted access to matters like health and education and demand more from them.

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Gay Marriage Politics Queer Politics, Culture, and History

American Gay: Pete Buttigieg and the Politics of Forgetting

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date June 18, 2019

Excerpt: The problem with Pete Buttigieg is not that he is homonormative or assimilationist, but that he represents a new will to forgetfulness on the part of the United States, a will embedded in a desire to recreate not just this country but the world in the cast of a new, gayer imperialism.

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Blood and Mucous: The Winter Update

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date December 11, 2018

“I wanted, and want, to write because writing is connected to what I want to see happen and change in the world…I write myself into the world and out of it, I write my plans for the world every minute as I enter and reenter it.”

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

All the White Ladies: The Real Dinosaurs of Murphy Brown

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date November 13, 2018

All the white ladies, from Hillary Clinton to Diane English to Candice Bergen and the fictional Murphy Brown, living in a past only they recall fondly and refusing to confront the realities of the present.

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Colder Than Mars: The Frigid Update

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date December 20, 2016

Lefties, it turns out, can’t actually walk and chew gum at the same time: With a few rare exceptions, the only way they know how to critique, say, identity politics, is to first mock everyone who belongs to particular identity categories while blithely ignoring the fact that, actually, whiteness is an identity as well.

Film, Art, Television, and Media Updates

What’s This Movie Called?: Or, Snakes and Ladders, and the End of Stardom and Friendships

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date December 14, 2016

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Politics

The World Will Still Need Your Attention: Beyond the 2016 Election

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date November 7, 2016

“At the end of the day, I still maintain I am ungovernable no matter who is elected, and that my dreams will never fit into a ballot box.”

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Feminism Politics

On the Current Paranoia about Trump vs. Clinton

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date July 29, 2016

I think those who criticise critics of HRC for possibly enabling a Trump victory are over-invested in presidential politics and elections to the extent they don’t see how work actually needs to happen in other arenas and levels.