Categories On Books and Publishing Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Bob Smith’s Selfish & Perverse Post author By Yasmin Nair Post date February 27, 2008 “What had me worried was that I was an artsy, thirty-four-year-old man who needed to confront whether I was really talented or just gay.” Continue reading “Bob Smith’s Selfish & Perverse”
Categories On Books and Publishing Review: Sara Paretsky’s Bleeding Kansas Post author By Yasmin Nair Post date February 20, 2008 Continue reading “Review: Sara Paretsky’s Bleeding Kansas”
Categories Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Friendship in the Time of Love Post author By Yasmin Nair Post date February 14, 2008 I realise I have nothing to prove to someone who’s simply not part of my tribe. Continue reading “Friendship in the Time of Love”
Categories Immigration Queer Politics, Culture, and History Queers and Immigration Reform: Where Do We Stand? Post author By Yasmin Nair Post date January 10, 2008 Relocating and/or moving between two countries can be difficult and taxing but that, my friends, is not exile. That’s mobility. Continue reading “Queers and Immigration Reform: Where Do We Stand?”
Categories Gay Marriage Immigration Queer Politics, Culture, and History Queer Immigration: Change the Paradigms Post author By Yasmin Nair Post date January 9, 2008 The emphasis on documented couples as more deserving of protection undermines progress towards immigration reform that benefits all immigrants, undocumented or not, single or otherwise. Continue reading “Queer Immigration: Change the Paradigms”
Categories Feminism On Books and Publishing Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Jean Thompson’s Throw Like a Girl Post author By Yasmin Nair Post date December 26, 2007 “It seemed you ought to be able to aim desire like a lens, and pass your longing straight through it. Maybe I was simply out of range.” Continue reading “Jean Thompson’s Throw Like a Girl”
Categories Capitalism, Class, Inequality Food Pantry Shortages: What’s the Real Story? Post author By Yasmin Nair Post date December 25, 2007 Don’t give, agitate. For better wages, for health care, and for eventually phasing Food Depositories out of business. Continue reading “Food Pantry Shortages: What’s the Real Story?”
Categories Capitalism, Class, Inequality Queer Politics, Culture, and History Queers and Gentrification: Wind Chimes Post author By Yasmin Nair Post date December 23, 2007 Continue reading “Queers and Gentrification: Wind Chimes”
Categories Capitalism, Class, Inequality On Books and Publishing Christopher Lane’s Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness Post author By Yasmin Nair Post date November 28, 2007 Excerpt: We have since attempted to scrub ourselves clean of the unconscious. Continue reading “Christopher Lane’s Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness”
Categories On Books and Publishing Jennifer Parello’s Dateland Post author By Yasmin Nair Post date October 3, 2007 Exceprt: We have convinced ourselves that being happy and being interesting are two incommensurable states of being. Continue reading “Jennifer Parello’s Dateland”
