Yasmin Nair

Donald Trump Won Because Hillary Clinton Lost

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date December 8, 2016

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Gay Marriage Politics Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Rights Make Might: The Dystopian Undertow of Hillary Clinton’s Elite Feminism

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date December 1, 2016

Liberal feminism is, by and large, also a carceral feminism: wedded to the idea that the only way to protect and preserve the rights of women is to turn to the prison–industrial complex as the final enforcer of gender justice.

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Let Defeat Sit In Your Bones Or, Forget Amnesia

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date November 23, 2016

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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.