Yasmin Nair

Rebecca Skloot’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 4, 2010

Skloot’s remarkable book parallels a deeply important story about a scientific breakthrough with an equally riveting one about the human subjects whose active and inactive participation helped make it possible.

Politics

Michael Bloomberg: King of the World

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date August 4, 2010

Only Michael Bloomberg would actually have the audacity to pretend that proffering his massive fortune – and access to the fortunes of others – is somehow indicative of “independence” and the ability to “speak plainly about common sense solutions.”

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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?

Gay Marriage Immigration Queer Politics, Culture, and History

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

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