Yasmin Nair

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Chicago Chronicles

On Philz Coffee in Hyde Park

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date September 12, 2019

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.

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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.