Categories Animals On Books and Publishing Dan Mathews’ Committed: A Rabble-Rouser’s Memoir Post author By Yasmin Nair Post date July 11, 2007 “Kids shouldn’t talk to strangers, even if the stranger is a vegetable.” Continue reading “Dan Mathews’ Committed: A Rabble-Rouser’s Memoir”
Categories Film, Art, Television, and Media On Books and Publishing Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic Post author By Yasmin Nair Post date July 4, 2007 “I’d been upstaged, demoted from protagonist in my own drama to comic relief in my parents’ tragedy.” Continue reading “Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic”
Categories On Books and Publishing Jacqueline Taylor’s Waiting for the Call: From Preacher’s Daughter to Lesbian Mom Post author By Yasmin Nair Post date June 13, 2007 The arc of the story is set in the title itself. Continue reading “Jacqueline Taylor’s Waiting for the Call: From Preacher’s Daughter to Lesbian Mom”
Categories Gay Marriage Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Who Needs Larry Kramer?: A resurrected ACT UP does not a progressive queer agenda make Post author By Yasmin Nair Post date June 1, 2007 When you have queers simultaneously fighting against a war and for the right to fight in it, the end of the world seems nigh. Continue reading “Who Needs Larry Kramer?: A resurrected ACT UP does not a progressive queer agenda make”
Categories On Books and Publishing Nicola Griffith’s Always Post author By Yasmin Nair Post date May 23, 2007 Money is a great thing to have in real life, but it makes for a lousy plot device in a novel. Continue reading “Nicola Griffith’s Always”
Categories Animals On Books and Publishing Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Barbara Kingsolver’s Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life Post author By Yasmin Nair Post date May 16, 2007 It never occurs to an otherwise progressive-minded Kingsolver that her project might replicate the United States’ political isolationism Continue reading “Barbara Kingsolver’s Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life”
Categories On Books and Publishing Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Todd Taylor’s Shirley Wins Post author By Yasmin Nair Post date May 9, 2007 Excerpt: Punk’s political power once lay, at least in part, in its refusal to live by categorizations, and its defiance of the imperative to grow up, settle down and pretend that there is nothing new to learn or live for after a point. Continue reading “Todd Taylor’s Shirley Wins”
Categories Film, Art, Television, and Media On Books and Publishing Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Rupert Everett’s Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins: The Autobiography Post author By Yasmin Nair Post date April 25, 2007 Now, to be a celebrity was to become a logo. Continue reading “Rupert Everett’s Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins: The Autobiography”
Categories On Books and Publishing Sara Miles’ Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion Post author By Yasmin Nair Post date April 18, 2007 As her journey progresses, however, Miles remains a lesbian while her leftist politics disappear. Continue reading “Sara Miles’ Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion”
Categories On Books and Publishing Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality A Different Take on Irshad Manji Post author By Yasmin Nair Post date April 1, 2007 She fully understands that history is made by those in power. She consistently opposes those who don’t defer to power. Continue reading “A Different Take on Irshad Manji”
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