Categories On Books and Publishing Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Terrance Dean’s Hiding in Hip Hop: On the Down Low in the Entertainment Industry—from Music to Hollywood Post author By Yasmin Nair Post date June 25, 2008 Does simply being out solve the problems of an industry that makes enormous profits while paying pittances to some? Continue reading “Terrance Dean’s Hiding in Hip Hop: On the Down Low in the Entertainment Industry—from Music to Hollywood”
Categories On Books and Publishing Blair Mastbaum’s Us Ones in Between: A Novel Post author By Yasmin Nair Post date June 25, 2008 The strange conclusion is a fitting end that may well be another beginning. Continue reading “Blair Mastbaum’s Us Ones in Between: A Novel”
Categories On Books and Publishing Queer Politics, Culture, and History David Trinidad’s The Late Show: Poems Post author By Yasmin Nair Post date June 11, 2008 What can we say, after all, about relationships that are not bound by conventional notions of love but are nonetheless as intense as this, and which are denied the language of sentiment? Continue reading “David Trinidad’s The Late Show: Poems”
Categories On Books and Publishing Blas Falconer’s A Question of Gravity and Light Post author By Yasmin Nair Post date June 1, 2008 A poet who’s precise without being sterile and weighty without being burdensome. Continue reading “Blas Falconer’s A Question of Gravity and Light”
Categories 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. Continue reading “Ready AND This Common Secret”
Categories On Books and Publishing Sarah LeVine’s The Saint of Kathmandu: And Other Tales of the Sacred in Distant Lands Post author By Yasmin Nair Post date May 2, 2008 But faith is formed by politics and history, and we sacrifice real political change when we render it in ahistorical terms. Continue reading “Sarah LeVine’s The Saint of Kathmandu: And Other Tales of the Sacred in Distant Lands”
Categories Gay Marriage On Books and Publishing Nancy Polikoff’s Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage: Valuing All Families under the Law Post author By Yasmin Nair Post date April 23, 2008 Polikoff shows why it’s necessary to separate marriage from the state’s responsibilities. Continue reading “Nancy Polikoff’s Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage: Valuing All Families under the Law”
Categories Feminism Prison industrial complex Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Rape: The T-Shirt Post author By Yasmin Nair Post date April 23, 2008 We have privatized victimhood and are now privatizing criminalization. Continue reading “Rape: The T-Shirt”
Categories Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Thomas Beatie’s pregnancy: What does it change? Post author By Yasmin Nair Post date April 9, 2008 The language of miracle-creation also obfuscates the embodied realities that face transgender people and/or people who raise children. Continue reading “Thomas Beatie’s pregnancy: What does it change?”
Categories Chicago Chronicles On Books and Publishing Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Sin in the Second City Post author By Yasmin Nair Post date April 2, 2008 “Kindly tell, for me, all the psalm-singers to go to hell and stick the clergymen in an ash-can.” Continue reading “Sin in the Second City”
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