Yasmin Nair

“What Happened in Room 2806?”: On Strauss-Kahn, the Maid, Power, and Our Fictions About Sex

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date July 8, 2011

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

“Neoliberalism’s Handiest Little Tool”: Against Equality Interview with Josh Pavan in No More Potlucks

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date July 6, 2011

You can marry naked and hanging upside down from a hot air balloon and share your marital bed with multiple strangers every day – none of that will change how the state endows your marriage with benefits it will not give to the unmarried.

Immigration Prison industrial complex Queer Politics, Culture, and History Yasmin's Media Appearances

An Interview with me and Ralowe T. Ampu for Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date June 29, 2011

Feminism Film, Art, Television, and Media Queer Politics, Culture, and History

My Modesty

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date June 19, 2011

Excerpt: Modesty represented power and an ability to reinvent oneself without giving a damn.

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

My WBEZ (NPR Chicago) interview about Illinois Civil Unions

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date June 17, 2011

On Books and Publishing Queer Politics, Culture, and History

Interview with John D’Emilio about Allan Bérubé’s “My Desire for History”

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date June 8, 2011

Politics Queer Politics, Culture, and History

Anti-gay adoption bill narrowly defeated in committee by seven votes to six

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date April 21, 2011

Breaking News

Originally appeared in Windy City Times on April 13, 2011

In a narrow victory for gay rights activists SB 1123, which would have effectively allowed religious child welfare and adoption agencies to bar adoptions and foster care by gay parents was just struck down.

Immigration Prison industrial complex Queer Politics, Culture, and History

National Immigrant Justice Center files mass civil rights complaint on behalf of LGBT immigrant detainees

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date April 21, 2011

Breaking News

Originally published in Windy City Times, April 15, 2011

The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC), a project of the Heartland Alliance, recently released a mass civil rights complaint about the “abuse and mistreatment” of thirteen immigrant detainees in the custody of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The complaint was filed with the DHS’s Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties and Office of Inspector General on April 13.

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.”

On Books and Publishing Prison industrial complex Queer Politics, Culture, and History

Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date February 2, 2011

It persuasively argues that innocence is a shifting category, contingent on visible markers of race and class privilege.