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Queer Politics, Culture, and History Updates Yasmin's Media Appearances

I was on Montreal’s Queer Corps Radio Hour

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Pandemic

Shame

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Prison industrial complex Yasmin's Media Appearances

I Was Interviewed for an Elite Daily Piece on Abolition

Francisco Jose de Goya etching "Little Prisoner"

“There are forms of policing that have nothing to do with walls. We have to understand the brutality of the prison-industrial complex, and we have to understand that we have normalized the existence of the prison-industrial complex in our lives.”

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Animals On Books and Publishing Yasmin's Media Appearances

A “Min-terview” with Current Affairs, Where I Am Confronted about My Kitten-Eating Habits and I Also Take on the World of Publishing

A great book is like the memory of an excellent conversation: it lasts and returns in intangible ways for years and shifts your thinking. 

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Capitalism, Class, Inequality Film, Art, Television, and Media

Stop Humanising Victims

Excerpt: “Humanising” stories blunt our consciousness about how violence and death come about. 

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Capitalism, Class, Inequality Film, Art, Television, and Media Labour Yasmin's Media Appearances

Nostalgia Trap Episode, “No Place Like Home.”

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

Domesticus Scientifica: Or, How Temperance Brennan Lost Her Mind And Became a Woman

Excerpt: It’s all a bit like going to Thanksgiving at your nicely progressive cousin’s house and finding yourself seated next to Josef Mengele.

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Feminism Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Her Name Was Norma

With her, all our pasts — the queer one, the feminist one, and the ostensibly straight one — become infinitely more complicated, and infinitely richer. 

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Film, Art, Television, and Media Yasmin's Media Appearances

Nostalgia Trap Episode, “Seduce and Destroy,” on Tom Cruise

“From his illegible sexuality to his leadership position within a massively powerful alien apocalypse cult, Cruise’s public and private presence reveals layers of insight into the ways that wealth, power, and desire intersect.”

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Capitalism, Class, Inequality Film, Art, Television, and Media Labour Updates

“Can We Save Facebook?”: New Piece in Current Affairs

Our end goal is to destroy the machine itself.