Yasmin Nair

Weekly Roundup: March 8, 2016

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date March 9, 2016

There was actually a brief period in winter when I fell into a deep funk, found myself crying on the phone with a friend, and seriously considered giving up writing for good, because just getting people to even respond to pleas for payment had become so dispiriting.

The Feminist Utopia Project Isn’t Utopian Just Yet

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date March 8, 2016

The problem here is that greed is situated as an emotional and cultural value, rather than as what it is: a structural component of capitalism.

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

Oscars: Diversity Is Not the Problem

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date February 29, 2016

The Academy operates like a corporation, and like every corporation it will work hard to maintain its facade of diversity.

Capitalism, Class, Inequality On Books and Publishing

I’m a Freelance Writer. I Refuse to Work for Free.

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date February 26, 2016

You’re not doing it for the money, but you’re making it impossible for me to earn a living.

Typewriting Machine Patent Vintage Illustrations Industrial image 0

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Labour

How to Be Poor

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date February 25, 2016

Excerpt: When we berate the poor for their “waste” or, for that matter, the rich for their “excess,” we are simply engaging in personalised narratives that do nothing to explain or even reveal the larger systems of power at work.

Capitalism, Class, Inequality On Books and Publishing

The Irony of Writing About Poverty On Medium

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date February 24, 2016

Excerpt: What is it about writing that we don’t see it as something that deserves compensation as labour? And why do we think that it’s okay to pay millionaires and billionaires with our labor instead of demanding that they pay us?