Yasmin Nair

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.

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Weekly Roundup: November 8, 2016

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date November 8, 2016

Resign yourself to how horrible it will be.

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.”

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Weekly Roundup: November 1, 2016

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date November 1, 2016

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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.

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Weekly Roundup: October 20, 2016

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date October 20, 2016

I’m fully aware that my requirement for an advance is not likely to be taken seriously by a number of publishers, and that’s fine with me because, well, the current system is doing me no favours.

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

Choose Your Elite: Edith Windsor, Hillary Clinton, or Donald Trump

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date October 6, 2016

Excerpt: Only the privileged get to jump on lifeboats to safety leaving everyone else to drown in seas of debt and poverty.

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

“Racism and the American Pit Bull” My Review of Pit Bull: The Battle over an American Icon

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date September 19, 2016

In the tautology established around pit bulls, all pit bulls are dangerous dogs and all dangerous dogs are pit bulls.

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

Meryl Streep Is in Costume as Florence Foster Jenkins

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date September 1, 2016

Excerpt: Imagine the iconic figure of the young woman holding up a little black dog. Consider the impressionistic lushnesss of the image. Now imagine that someone has come along, cut out the woman, and replaced her with a photographic image of a woman with a dog.

Feminism Politics Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Anthony Weiner, Huma Abedin, and the Gender of Power

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 29, 2016

Excerpt: To point out that two such high-placed women in the world’s most powerful country had to negotiate their political lives through those of their husbands is not sexist: It simply points to the incredible sexism that still undergirds our political structure.