Yasmin Nair

A Big Thank You, and a Quick Update

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date December 23, 2017

On Cultural Purity

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date November 1, 2017

If the Cultural Purity Police (CPP) had their way, they would brand British curry as theft, but every cuisine consists of an infinite number of borrowings and travels, sometimes stretching back millennia.

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Frida Is Dead, and I Am Undone

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date September 15, 2017

I am completely undone, and am facing, for the first time in many years, life without one of my two great loves.

Updates

For the Fourth: Taking a Break for a While

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date June 28, 2017

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Sumer Is Icumen In, At Last

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date June 22, 2017

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Summertime and the Censorship is Easy

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date June 14, 2017

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

When Academics Attack: My Piece Critiquing Academia Is Blocked by Lefties Complaining about Censorship

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date June 14, 2017

Today, academics are only dangerous to those on the left, like me, who dare question its fragile sense of self-worth and “danger.”

Academia

“The Dangerous Acaedemic Is An Extinct Species” in Current Affairs

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date June 7, 2017

He hadn’t really stirred up a hornet’s nest; after all, people who poke actual bees occasionally get bee stings.

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On My Back: Age, Death, and Angry Birds

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date June 6, 2017

For those who live in cities where cabs and public transportation are plentiful and efficient and like to go on about the evils of ride-sharing: Stuff it. I get all the issues, but if I’d been on a hour and a half long el ride (perfectly normal in Chicago, where the public transportation system is carefully designed to keep white people safe from everyone else who has to take circuitious routes to get anywhere), I don’t think I would have survived the massive pain for that long without killing myself or screaming, a lot.

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Abortive Reasoning: What’s Wrong with the Reproductive Rights Debate

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date June 1, 2017

The tyranny of experience in abortion rights discourse has potentially disastrous consequences.

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