Yasmin Nair

Changes

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date January 22, 2019

I’m willing to take unpopular stances not because I want to be a contrarian but because I’m interested in pursuing the truth of an analysis with integrity (and I have no patience for false modesty).

On Nostalgia, Sex Work, and the Dancing Girls of Lahore

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date January 10, 2019

Excerpt: She wilfully erases the economic and political conditions they live in and weaponises their lives in the interest of a global nostalgia that has no basis in reality.

“ From the series The Beauties of Lucknow by Darogah Abbas Ali ca. 1874. ”

Updates

Blood and Mucous: The Winter Update

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date December 11, 2018

“I wanted, and want, to write because writing is connected to what I want to see happen and change in the world…I write myself into the world and out of it, I write my plans for the world every minute as I enter and reenter it.”

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Feminism Film, Art, Television, and Media Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Your Trauma Is Your Passport: Hannah Gadsby, Nanette, and Global Citizenship

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date November 20, 2018

Excerpt: Nanette assures viewers, especially straight ones, that queers and women can and must be understood and assimilated by first understanding us as uniquely and literally broken and bashed in.

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

All the White Ladies: The Real Dinosaurs of Murphy Brown

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date November 13, 2018

All the white ladies, from Hillary Clinton to Diane English to Candice Bergen and the fictional Murphy Brown, living in a past only they recall fondly and refusing to confront the realities of the present.

Academia Queer Politics, Culture, and History

On Judith Butler and the MLA

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date September 5, 2018

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Academia Film, Art, Television, and Media Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Asia Argento and Avital Ronell Or, Humans Are the Worst People

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 22, 2018

Naming power isn’t really enough if the primary aim is to simply shift power around, and #MeToo’s supporters and “leaders” haven’t really done all that much to change that conversation.

Updates

On Writing with Pain

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date June 28, 2018

The ongoing pain has forced me to reconfigure my schedule to prioritise the projects that need to get done—like finishing the proposal and producing work for my website and my supporters and subscribers—and to simply say no to anything that does not go towards all that.

Updates

An Update: On Schedules and Moving Forward

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date June 27, 2018

What I want instead is to bring back the idea of writing as something that has a muscularity and a will to bring about a different world. And if we are to do that, we need to understand it as both work and labor, and not pretend that to ask for payment is to be ungrateful about our place as writers.

Chicago Chronicles

Hyde Park: Where Food Goes to Die

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date June 26, 2018

Excerpt: What kind of culinary omerta survives in Hyde Park to keep its restaurants at such a depth of mediocrity?