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Forty Pieces: A Sampling of My Work

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date January 24, 2020

Update: On Publishing, Plagiarism, Philz Coffee, and Persistence

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date October 2, 2019

If there is one thing I’m really happy about, it’s my writing. I’m exploring new topics and even genres and very happy stretching my muscles with all the new work I’ve got planned.

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Feminism Film, Art, Television, and Media Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Your Trauma Is Your Passport: Hannah Gadsby, Nanette, and Global Citizenship

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date November 20, 2018

Excerpt: Nanette assures viewers, especially straight ones, that queers and women can and must be understood and assimilated by first understanding us as uniquely and literally broken and bashed in.

Academia Film, Art, Television, and Media On Books and Publishing

A World of Shame: Time, Belonging, and Social Media

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date June 12, 2018

Excerpt: This is a murder mystery without a murder. Think of it like a Brian De Palma movie from the 1970s: a streetwalker is found dead in an alleyway, and the detective assigned to the case is about to write it up as another transaction gone awry until he begins to see the clues that […]

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

Donald Trump Won Because Hillary Clinton Lost

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date December 8, 2016

Politics Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Updates

Welcome to The Morning After: November 17, 2016

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date November 17, 2016

The way ahead for the left is not to cede both discourse and imagination, but to think about how to expand on both to make itself felt as a living, breathing, entity that offers several wild and fantastic possibilities, utopias even, in a frightened and frightening world.

On Books and Publishing Updates

Weekly Roundup: October 24, 2016

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date October 25, 2016

In too many cases, we have relatively young editors or desperate adjuncts eagerly hoping to have graduate careers in academia or find adjunct gigs, assigned to “edit” famous or powerful academics who might have the influence to advance (or end) their careers.

Capitalism, Class, Inequality On Books and Publishing

The Irony of Writing About Poverty On Medium

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date February 24, 2016

Excerpt: What is it about writing that we don’t see it as something that deserves compensation as labour? And why do we think that it’s okay to pay millionaires and billionaires with our labor instead of demanding that they pay us?

Academia Animals Capitalism, Class, Inequality Labour On Books and Publishing Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Working Skin: Joseph Hankins Writes about Leather, Japan’s Buraku People, and Global Circuits of Identity Formation

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date April 1, 2015

“This is an attempt to trace the conditions that reproduce the logic of the suffering/savage slot, even as I position my own work within those conditions.”

Film, Art, Television, and Media On Books and Publishing

Is Your Reading Material Ethically Sourced?

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date May 29, 2014

When you share articles from sources that don’t pay their writers even when they can afford to or when you support the work of an editor who takes pay but doesn’t bother to pay writers, you’re contributing to the increase in scab labour in publishing.