Yasmin Nair

Rolling Stone Now Has “Reservations” about Its UVA Rape Story

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date December 5, 2014

I want us to think about rape as it happens situationally, not as “rape culture.”

Gay Marriage Queer Politics, Culture, and History

Charles Manson and Gay Marriage

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date November 18, 2014

“Seems oddly appropriate since marriage is a prison sentence.”

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Queer Politics, Culture, and History

Introverts and the Kinsey Scale

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date November 9, 2014

Excerpt: Introverts are not Magical and Special People; they can be assholes like everyone else.

Chicago Chronicles People and Places to Support

Support Chicago Freedom School for A Better World!

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date October 28, 2014

I’m writing to ask people to support an organisation that is one of the few near and dear to my heart: Chicago Freedom School. On November 6, 2014, CFS will be hosting its Moments of Justice event, in celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act.

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Chicago Chronicles Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

On the Scent of Cum, Steam, and Gentrification

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date October 15, 2014

Excerpt: Every neighbourhood needs its bathhouse, and there was nothing like jizz in the air to make me feel at home.

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Academia Capitalism, Class, Inequality Labour

“Class Shock: Affect, Mobility, and the Adjunct Crisis”: New Piece in Contrivers’ Review

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date October 15, 2014

Class Shock: the feeling of inadequacy and anger that arises when one’s class aspirations have been trampled underfoot.

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On Books and Publishing Prison industrial complex Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Review of Naomi Murakawa’s The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America.

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date October 4, 2014

The center of the carceral state is not, it turns out, the cold, frozen heart of the conservative dominated by an openly racist animus, but the warm, bleeding heart of liberalism, throbbing with feelings of goodness and tolerance.

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

Danièle Watts, Sexual Respectability, and Talking to Cops

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date September 19, 2014

Watts’ insistence on simply having experienced pleasure while fully clothed does nothing really to advance a more complicated idea of what counts as pleasure in public.

Film, Art, Television, and Media

Laverne Cox and the Cost of Celebrity

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date September 16, 2014