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Yasmin's Media Appearances

Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Don’t Fight: How the Death of DADT Extends the Reach of U.S. Militarization, Buzzsaw interview, September 30, 2011

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“None of us have ever said that it’s not discriminatory to have a policy that excludes gay people. What we are saying is that we’re against discrimination, but we’re also against war.”


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Film, Art, Television, and Media Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

The New Yorker Sheds More Light on the Clementi-Ravi Story

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Can we grapple with the complexity of the truth instead of being seduced by the more palatable tale of good and evil?


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Feminism Gay Marriage Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Cynthia Nixon Is Not My Choice for A Hero

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Cynthia Nixon was far more interesting as a straight woman than she is as a lesbian.


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Politics Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Newt Gingrich: Polyamorist?

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Caught between people who wanted me to be part of their polyamorous relationship, my response has usually been to flee.  Really, people, can we just fuck and let it be?


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Film, Art, Television, and Media

Looking for the Math and Science in Everything, And Failing to See the Arts

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Just, please, don’t pretend it’s anything more than knitting in the round and don’t pretend to be engaging in some profoundly subversive form of politics.


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Capitalism, Class, Inequality

Your Debt Is Not A Moral Failure

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Consider this: In an economy where home ownership is cast in such deeply racialised terms – in terms of who can buy and where – debt became a way to offer the false hope of citizenship itself.


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Capitalism, Class, Inequality Feminism Gay Marriage Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Fuck Love

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We continue to pretend that the only people who can fuck you up are the people you fuck.


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Capitalism, Class, Inequality Gay Marriage

Make Marriage Work Like Disappearing Ink: Mexico Contemplates Two-year Marital Contracts

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Imagine that: a world where marriage is not some sacrosanct institution which you tie yourself to in order to survive.


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Capitalism, Class, Inequality Feminism Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

“What Happened in Room 2806?”: On Strauss-Kahn, the Maid, Power, and Our Fictions About Sex

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Our current discourse around consent/the lack thereof demands that we see sex as something given freely, given for money, or not at all.


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Gay Marriage Queer Politics, Culture, and History Yasmin's Media Appearances

“Neoliberalism’s Handiest Little Tool”: Against Equality Interview with Josh Pavan in No More Potlucks

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You can marry naked and hanging upside down from a hot air balloon and share your marital bed with multiple strangers every day – none of that will change how the state endows your marriage with benefits it will not give to the unmarried.


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