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Capitalism, Class, Inequality Film, Art, Television, and Media

Stop Humanising Victims

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“Humanising” stories blunt our consciousness about how violence and death come about. 


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Academia Feminism Film, Art, Television, and Media Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Domesticus Scientifica: Or, How Temperance Brennan Lost Her Mind And Became a Woman

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Excerpt: It’s all a bit like going to Thanksgiving at your nicely progressive cousin’s house and finding yourself seated next to Josef Mengele.


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

Her Name Was Norma

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With her, all our pasts — the queer one, the feminist one, and the ostensibly straight one — become infinitely more complicated, and infinitely richer. 


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Capitalism, Class, Inequality Film, Art, Television, and Media Labour Updates

“Can We Save Facebook?”: New Piece in Current Affairs

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Our end goal is to destroy the machine itself.


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Pandemic

Good

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I am good; I will make the unmasked squirm and suffer in their shame. 


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Updates

Update: April 17, 2020

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I thought of writing a little sequel to my first piece but decided there’s not much to say about this except that he’s being his usual, cynical, manipulative self, that he’s clearly full of shit, and that he’ll probably be president of the United States some day. 


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Pandemic

Person

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A person is a universe.  


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Updates Yasmin's Media Appearances

Update: April 8, 2020

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Updates Yasmin's Media Appearances

Forty Pieces: A Sampling of My Work

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

Anal Sex and Its Discontents: Emma Sulkowicz, Lawrence v. Texas, and the Histories of a Sex Act

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It’s not that anal sex disrupts capitalism… but that it symbolises the dichotomy between public and private which also characterises the accumulation of capital.


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