Yasmin Nair

Feminism Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

It’s a Foetus, Not an Unborn Child

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date September 14, 2014

The mother is capable of making her own decisions and if she wants to abort a foetus, yes, a foetus for any reason whatsoever, she’s well within her rights to do so.

Academia

Steven Salaita and the Myth of Academic Freedom

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date September 9, 2014

For large swaths of graduate students, adjuncts, tenure track faculty, and even some tenured faculty, the notion of academic freedom has always been suspect anyway.

Yasmin's Media Appearances

Part TWO of My Interview with Hypocrite Reader: The Ideal Neoliberal Subject is the Subject of Trauma: Part TWO of My Inteview with Hypocrite Reader

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date September 3, 2014

When we talk about rape culture, we erase all those differences, and we make it very difficult, we make it impossible, to really think about what engenders rape.

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

Celebrity Nude Photos and Sexual Assault: Some Thoughts

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date September 3, 2014

At the heart of all this manufactured outrage lies barely suppressed anger at the projected violation of white women.

Tags Celebrity, Hollywood

Politics

Gaza Is Not Ferguson

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 14, 2014

It’s popular and easy to talk and write about capitalism as being inherently racist and/or anti-Black, but the harder work involves an understanding of capitalism’s insidiousness, outside the mystifying tendencies of much of today’s race scholarship.

Tags Ferguson, Palestine, Police Brutality

Yasmin's Media Appearances

There’s No Rescuing the Concept of Equality: Part ONE of My Interview with Hypocrite Reader

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date July 26, 2014

“I am not interested at all in the idea of queer being somehow better than or more politically recalcitrant or engaged or more radical than anything else.”

Animals

PETA: Free the Animals, Hurt the Humans

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date July 26, 2014

Film, Art, Television, and Media Prison industrial complex Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

“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