Categories Film, Art, Television, and Media Queer Politics, Culture, and History When XXX Doesn’t Mark the Spot: What censoring online porn means for queer youth (and everyone else), In These Times Post author By Yasmin Nair Post date December 30, 2013 Ultimately, neoliberal controls will make access limitless for the affluent and miserly for the rest. Continue reading “When XXX Doesn’t Mark the Spot: What censoring online porn means for queer youth (and everyone else), In These Times”
Categories Gay Marriage On Books and Publishing Queer Politics, Culture, and History My Review of “The Battle over Marriage” Is Just Out in the Chicago Reader Post author By Yasmin Nair Post date December 18, 2013 She takes their claims at face value. Continue reading “My Review of “The Battle over Marriage” Is Just Out in the Chicago Reader”
Categories Academia Capitalism, Class, Inequality Film, Art, Television, and Media Labour On Books and Publishing On Writers as Scabs, Whores, and Interns, And the Jacobin Problem Post author By Yasmin Nair Post date December 11, 2013 Continue reading “On Writers as Scabs, Whores, and Interns, And the Jacobin Problem” Tags Jacobin, Left Publishing
Categories Capitalism, Class, Inequality Feminism Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Confession, Neoliberalism, and The Big Reveal Post author By Yasmin Nair Post date December 6, 2013 No tragic dramas? Make them up! But, always: Confess and Reveal. Continue reading “Confession, Neoliberalism, and The Big Reveal”
Categories On Books and Publishing Writing and Wanking Post author By Yasmin Nair Post date December 5, 2013 We’re all such a bunch of pretentious wankers anyway. Continue reading “Writing and Wanking”
Categories Gay Marriage Hate Crime Legislation Prison industrial complex Queer Politics, Culture, and History HRC, Drones, and Space Aliens Post author By Yasmin Nair Post date December 4, 2013 Excerpt: It’s hard to not admire HRC in the same way: Like the Alien, it’s a perfect beast, unclouded by liberal or left delusions about parity or justice. Continue reading “HRC, Drones, and Space Aliens”
Categories Academia Film, Art, Television, and Media Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality My Review of “Resisterectomy” in the Chicago Reader and Chicago Sun-Times Post author By Yasmin Nair Post date December 3, 2013 “Resisterectomy” locates gender not as a finite end but as a more fraught series of questions. Continue reading “My Review of “Resisterectomy” in the Chicago Reader and Chicago Sun-Times”
Categories Updates UPDATES: The Omnibus Edition Post author By Yasmin Nair Post date November 21, 2013 We’re all very comfortable demanding that our food and consumer goods be ethically sourced—why not demand the same of your reading material? Continue reading “UPDATES: The Omnibus Edition”
Categories Animals Capitalism, Class, Inequality On Books and Publishing Review of Trash Animals Post author By Yasmin Nair Post date November 18, 2013 What makes a trash animal? Continue reading “Review of Trash Animals”
Categories Gay Marriage Queer Politics, Culture, and History Marry you must!: Gay marriage in Illinois Post author By Yasmin Nair Post date November 7, 2013 We need to foreground the economic underside of gay marriage, instead of focusing on its social conventions. Continue reading “Marry you must!: Gay marriage in Illinois”
