Yasmin Nair

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.

Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage: Valuing All Families under the Law (Queer Ideas/Queer Action Book 3) by [Polikoff, Nancy D., Bronski, Michael]

Rape: The T-Shirt

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date April 23, 2008

We have privatized victimhood and are now privatizing criminalization.

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.

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.”

On Books and Publishing

Jhumpa Lahiri’s Unaccustomed Earth

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date April 2, 2008

It’s like an episode of Friends, only sadder.

On Books and Publishing

Having a “Fall”: Interview with Christopher Rice

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date March 26, 2008

“I think that’s certainly something that can be said about the Iraq War: We are over there trying to save people who didn’t ask us to be there and who didn’t want to be saved by us. And that’s something he’s attuned to, and something a lot of military people are attuned to.”