Yasmin Nair

Prison industrial complex Queer Politics, Culture, and History

Loving Hate: Why Hate Crimes Legislation is a Bad Idea

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 4, 2010

Is jailing people for their prejudice really going to curtail bigotry and prejudice?

Legalize Gay, Or: So You Think You’re Illegal?

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 3, 2010

This t-shirt proves that gay marriage supporters aren’t afraid to exploit other struggles in an effort to legitimize themselves as the most marginalized.

Politics Queer Politics, Culture, and History

Homophobia and Israel/Palestine or, What’s political about “Queer?”: Some thoughts

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 3, 2010

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

Which of the Busted Prostitutes Is A Man?: On NBC’s “Dude Looks Like A Lady”

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 3, 2010

We are explicitly being asked to look at their faces very, very closely and make sure they have fulfilled all our cultural expectations.

Politics Queer Politics, Culture, and History

DADT and the Silence / Silencing of Queer Anti-War Voices

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 3, 2010

Even programs like Amy Goodman’s are going along with this gay conservatism around war and DADT and not questioning the contradictions that they, surely, discern.

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

Why I won’t Come Out on National Coming Out Day

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 3, 2010

By placing so much emphasis on the act of revealing…we are implicitly arguing that to be queer is, in effect, to always have to come out.

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

Lesbian teen pregnancy rates

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 2, 2010

“I’m really tired of the emphasis on the closet…”

Queer Film and Media Pedagogy: A Roundtable

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 1, 2010

“Queer Film and Media Pedagogy: A Roundtable with Michael Bronski, Terri Ginsberg, Roy Grundmann, Kara Keeling, Liora Moriel, Yasmin Nair, and Kirsten Moana Thompson.”

GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 12(1): 117-134 (2006); DOI:10.1215/10642684-12-1-117

This article requires a subscription to GLQ.

http://glq.dukejournals.org/content/vol12/issue1/

Capitalism, Class, Inequality Politics

Class in Drag: In American Politics, the Poor are Dressed up As “Working Class”

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 1, 2010

Our sentimentality about the “working class” allows us to forget the depth of the inequality we face.

Image result for victorian working class

Academia Chicago Chronicles Queer Politics, Culture, and History

Gay historian unveils research

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 1, 2010

“a much larger story of corruption, bribery, organized crime and the political machinery of Mayor Daley.”

John D’Emilio, professor of gay history and women’s studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) , presented his latest research on Chicago’s gay history February 9 at the university’s Institute for the Humanities, where he currently holds a yearlong fellowship. Speaking to a packed room, D’Emilio gave a speech provocatively titled “Rethinking Queer History. Or, Richard Nixon, Gay Liberationist.”