Categories Academia Feminism Film, Art, Television, and Media Gay Marriage Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Angelina Jolie, Queer Theory, and the Gods of Neoliberalism Post author By Yasmin Nair Post date September 21, 2007 Excerpt: ‘Sybil,’ it turns out, may barely have had one personality, leave alone sixteen. Much like Angelina, whose wild queerness turns out to have hidden a saintly girl who marries half the people with whom she sleeps.” Continue reading “Angelina Jolie, Queer Theory, and the Gods of Neoliberalism”
Categories Politics Queer Politics, Culture, and History Larry Craig, Weapons of Mass Distraction, and Lesbian Public Sex Post author By Yasmin Nair Post date September 5, 2007 We are being screwed, my friends, and not in a good way. Continue reading “Larry Craig, Weapons of Mass Distraction, and Lesbian Public Sex”
Categories On Books and Publishing Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Kenny Fries’ The History of My Shoes and the Evolution of Darwin’s Theory Post author By Yasmin Nair Post date August 29, 2007 Interesting ideas don’t always make for compelling books. Continue reading “Kenny Fries’ The History of My Shoes and the Evolution of Darwin’s Theory”
Categories On Books and Publishing Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys: True Tales of Love, Lust, and Friendship between Straight Women and Gay Men Post author By Yasmin Nair Post date August 1, 2007 It’s not the fag hag who’s dead—it’s the fag. Continue reading “Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys: True Tales of Love, Lust, and Friendship between Straight Women and Gay Men”
Categories On Books and Publishing Craig Seymour’s All I Could Bare: My Life in the Strip Clubs of Gay Washington, D.C Post author By Yasmin Nair Post date July 30, 2007 Sex, it turns out, says nothing about sexuality. Continue reading “Craig Seymour’s All I Could Bare: My Life in the Strip Clubs of Gay Washington, D.C”
Categories On Books and Publishing An Interview with PETA’s Dan Mathews Post author By Yasmin Nair Post date July 18, 2007 We spent many years kicking the door open and now we’ve got a foot in it. Continue reading “An Interview with PETA’s Dan Mathews”
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”