Yasmin Nair

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?

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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.

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.

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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.

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]

Feminism Prison industrial complex Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Rape: The T-Shirt

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date April 23, 2008

Excerpt: 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.”

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Jhumpa Lahiri’s Unaccustomed Earth

Post author By Yasmin Nair
Post date April 2, 2008

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

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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.”