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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.

Feminism Prison industrial complex Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Is Slutwalk the End of Feminism?

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date October 9, 2012

If feminism is to remain relevant, it needs to become more intractable, not less, and it needs to see itself working beyond the landscape of the personal.

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Gay Marriage Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Gay Marriage Hurts My Breasts

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date May 2, 2012

Excerpt: You want health care but not marriage or commitment? Tough titties. Get married or die.

Feminism Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

In Defense of Sluts

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date March 3, 2012

What, pray tell, if Fluke is indeed a slut?

On Books and Publishing Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Bright Life, Big Sex: The Susie Bright Interview

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date April 13, 2011

“I get very excited about the international sex worker organizations, who will not let these positions go uncommented upon, who speak a little truth to the power.”

Feminism On Books and Publishing Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date April 7, 2010

A very specifically lesbian world.

Feminism On Books and Publishing Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Girldrive: Criss-Crossing America, Redefining Feminism

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date January 27, 2010

Fred just happens to be Frederic Jameson, one of the most influential theorists of postmodernity.

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Politics

Who’s Middle Class Anyway?: Sarah Palin, Joe Sixpack, and Main Street

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date October 5, 2008

Excerpt: But even more fascinating to me is the extent to which we hold on to the idea that we’re all just part of a struggling middle class, despite mounting evidence that a lot of us are just plain poor.

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Feminism Politics Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Barefoot and Pregnant in the White House: Sarah and Bristol Palin

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date September 3, 2008

Let’s not forget that a woman’s right to have an abortion has everything to do with citizenship and power and can’t be dismissed as irrelevant.

Feminism On Books and Publishing Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Ready AND This Common Secret

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date May 7, 2008

Excerpt: The ability to reproduce and the ability to cease reproduction are mired in a complex entanglement of access and privilege.