Yasmin Nair

PETA: Free the Animals, Hurt the Humans

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date July 26, 2014

“The Reign of Whitey Is Never Over”: Review of Orange Is the New Black, Season 2

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date June 11, 2014

If Season 1 made prison seem like Camp PrisonCanBeFun for girls, Season 2 is bleaker and filled with reminders that the only certainty about prison life, besides the roaches and the shit bubbling up through bad plumbing, is the absolute uncertainty.

Feminism Film, Art, Television, and Media

Somaly Mam, Nicholas Kristof, and the Real Sex Trafficking Story

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date June 2, 2014

Excerpt: Nicholas Kristof’s collected work on sex trafficking constitutes a masturbatory text, allowing do-gooders everywhere to stroke and erect their unspoken desires about rescuing sad, tormented women.

Tags Nicholas Kristoff, Sex Trafficking, Somaly Mam

Film, Art, Television, and Media On Books and Publishing

Is Your Reading Material Ethically Sourced?

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date May 29, 2014

Academia Film, Art, Television, and Media

Paul Krugman, CUNY, and the fallacy of “The 99%”

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date May 13, 2014

The problem can only be resolved if we do away with adjuncts entirely.

On Books and Publishing

My Review of Jo Becker’s Controversial New Book on Gay Marriage

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date May 7, 2014

An epic tale of a band of brave heroes and the foolish combatants who dared to try to vanquish them, a kind of gay “Lord of the Rings,” but with men in dark bespoke suits instead of magic armor and cloaks. …

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

Why Now? Introducing the Allen-Farrow Series

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date May 1, 2014

Capitalism, Class, Inequality

On Cravings, Illness, and Chana Masala

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date April 24, 2014

I’ll be the first to admit that chana masala, like good or even decent pound cake, is best made from scratch but there’s a time and place for that, and a time and place for simply throwing everything into a pot and crossing your fingers that you end up with something edible.

Chicago Chronicles Feminism Queer Politics, Culture, and History Reporting

Statue stolen from HBHC Peace Garden again

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date April 13, 2014

A statue commemorating the late Mary York, the lesbian attorney and community activist who died of cancer in 2008, has been stolen from the Howard Brown Health Center ( HBHC ) Peace Garden.

Yasmin's Media Appearances

“Scabs” Is Mentioned in The Nation’s Julia Wong Column

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date April 7, 2014