Yasmin Nair

Prison industrial complex Queer Politics, Culture, and History

Hate Crimes, Exceptionalism, and the State’s Order to Kill

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date December 29, 2012

When we focus on who commits such acts, we conveniently forget why they happen in the first place. And then, of course, it allows us to forget a simple fact: no one actually deserves to die a violent and senseless death.

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Immigration Yasmin's Media Appearances

Radio Interview with Karma Chávez on Wisconsin Public Radio, WORT

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date December 24, 2012

I recently did an interview with my friend, collaborator, and fellow Against Equality collective member Dr.Karma Chávez on Wisconsin Public Radio, WORT (89.9 fm), out of Madison. We talked about my piece, “Undocumented vs. Illegal: A Distinction without a Difference,” and related matters.

You can listen to it here.

Queer Politics, Culture, and History Yasmin's Media Appearances

Radio Interview with Doug Henwood about Against Equality’s “Prisons Will Not Protect You”

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date December 18, 2012

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

Undocumented vs. Illegal: A Distinction without a Difference

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date December 11, 2012

Politics

On Death and Exceptionalism

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date December 9, 2012

Academia Chicago Chronicles Feminism Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

On Jim Hubbard’s “United in Anger” and Jeff Edwards

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date November 29, 2012

Edwards would have been metaphorically and literally run out of Chicago if he had been anything but a white, gay man.

Gay Marriage Queer Politics, Culture, and History

Do We Have to Be “Equal”?

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date November 5, 2012

Excerpt: But two daddies are not better than none and, for that matter, no one needs to be a parent to be considered worthy of support.

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Immigration Politics

Election 2012: Eyes Wide Shut

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date October 31, 2012

I would like us all to collectively dispense with the idea that an Obama administration is any less neoliberal from the last one or from a prospective Romney Presidency.