Yasmin Nair

David Munar will head Howard Brown center [includes video interview]

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date February 12, 2014

Longtime AIDS and LGBT health advocate David Munar will take over the troubled Howard Brown Health Center ( HBHC ) as its new president and CEO starting April 1.

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

Pratibah Parmar discusses Alice Walker’s ‘Truth’

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date February 5, 2014

Pratibha Parmar is an acclaimed filmmaker, among the first of a generation of queer British filmmakers who were also people of color. Among her many noteworthy films are Reframing AIDS (1987) and Khush (1991). In 1993, she made Warrior Marks, a film about female genital mutilation, based on a book by Alice Walker and Parmar. Warrior Marks was controversial amongst many who opposed Walker and Parmar’s political stance against FGM, but cemented a long-standing collaboration and friendship between the two women.

Politics

A Socialist Alderman for Chicago?

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date January 29, 2014

Tags Socialism

Film, Art, Television, and Media Queer Politics, Culture, and History

My review of the Queer Art Show, “Strange Bedfellows,” Chicago Reader

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date January 29, 2014

It leaves open the many questions it raises: What do we mean by queer art today? Who makes it? Do we still need it?

Chicago Chronicles Queer Politics, Culture, and History Reporting

Howard Brown terminates several staff

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date January 9, 2014

Following whispers that Howard Brown Health Center is set to hire a new leader of the organization, as reported last week in Windy City Times, comes news of employment terminations at the agency.

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Labour

Nonprofit Housing: The Soup Kitchen Approach to “Social Justice”

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date January 9, 2014

“Why does a willingness to accept lower wages (much lower wages than for-profits) seem to be an indicator or qualification for one’s job in the nonprofit sector?”

Tags Nonprofits

Chicago Chronicles Queer Politics, Culture, and History Reporting

HBHC could see new director soon

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date January 6, 2014

Howard Brown Health Center is due to make significant changes in the following weeks, including possibly hiring a new leader, according to sources contacted by Windy City Times.