Yasmin Nair

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

On Desire

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date October 4, 2019

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Excerpt: Most of all, terms like “sapiosexual” and “demisexual” seek to make stable and coherent and legible and understandable a part of our lives that is simply not something we can easily contain: Desire.

Updates

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.

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

On Caroline Calloway and Whole Foods

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date October 1, 2019

Excerpt: We have always been defined by our thingness, our places in different economies, different kinds of circulation of value. We’ve only just learned how to make our thingnesses visible to each other.

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Chicago Chronicles

On Philz Coffee in Hyde Park

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date September 12, 2019

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Death Is Your Gift: A Midsummer Update

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date July 28, 2019

I’ve gone through more life-changing experiences in the course of a few months than most experience in a few years, and I think that’s so true. At the same time, my life is also not that different from the millions of others who operate in an economy that now defines us as the “precariat.”

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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.

Academia

On Graduation

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date May 21, 2019

I grew weary of all the anti-intellectualism around education, so prevalent even among some leftists who are calling for an end to academia. Here’s a really short version of a “graduation speech” of sorts.