Yasmin Nair

Margot Weiss talks BDSM and sexuality

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date October 30, 2013

“I’ll leave this with Patrick Califia’s words: ‘I do not believe that we can fuck our way to freedom.'”

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Why Is America Turning to Shit?

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date October 30, 2013

Excerpt: If we are to truly reimagine the place of shit in our lives, we need to consider the harsh realities of who gets to shit in peace, and who gets to clean it up afterwards.

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No More City on a Hill: Interview with Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date October 23, 2013

Because it’s when you really believe in people, that’s when they can really let you down.

Academia On Books and Publishing

On Paul de Man

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date October 21, 2013

I’m also struck by the extremely reductive and sweeping generalisations being made about theory. Criticism of the same would be more worthwhile if it didn’t come from such an anti-intellectual space.

Academia On Books and Publishing

Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Žižek: You Learnt It in Grad School

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date October 18, 2013

Žižek represents a comforting spot for overgrown graduate students.

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Review of Stephen Jimenez’s new book, The Book of Matt

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date October 16, 2013

In the annals of vengeance disguised as justice, the point, it seemed, was not to condemn the murders committed by the state, but to celebrate innocence.

On Books and Publishing Queer Politics, Culture, and History

Two Pieces on Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date October 6, 2013

“We were the beginning of the end and we didn’t know what to do because we’d just found the beginning.”

Feminism Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Are We Fabulous Yet?

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date October 3, 2013

What happens to those who don’t transition so beautifully?

On Books and Publishing Queer Politics, Culture, and History

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore talks Faggotry, San Francisco

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date October 2, 2013

“With this book, I want to reimagine memoir as an active process of remembering, an investigation, an instigation—stylistically and structurally, as well as politically and intimately.“

Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?: Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Conform by [Sycamore, Mattilda Bernstein]

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Trans activist Dean Spade holds court at DePaul

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date September 30, 2013

Noted trans activist, attorney, Sylvia Rivera Law Project (SRLP) founder and author Dean Spade was in Chicago presenting on his book, Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law. The event took place Sept. 24 in the DePaul Student Center.