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Updates Yasmin's Media Appearances

Update: July 6

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Capitalism, Class, Inequality Gay Marriage Hate Crime Legislation Prison industrial complex Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

On Kink at Pride

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Excerpt: The really radical act is to question the idea that any sexual act is somehow in itself transgressive


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

Jolene, Jolene, Jolene: On Blackness in Queen’s Gambit

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Excerpt: But what if a more nuanced portrayal of their relationship, one that acknowledged that initial shock, existed? 


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Capitalism, Class, Inequality On Books and Publishing

The Publishing World Is Like Fyre Fest

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Excerpt: It’s a lifestyle many writers yearn for: unhurried, complacent, lots of manufactured insouciance, and lots of money to write about it all. 


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Film, Art, Television, and Media

Zombie Breasts

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Excerpt: There need be no ponderous moments of tenderness or human connection. 


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

Adoption and the Burden of Whiteness

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Excerpt: The problems facing adoptees of colour and white adoptees are different in many ways but no matter their colour, adoptees inevitably face the burdens of race.


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Prison industrial complex

Against Humanity: On Ma’Khia Bryant and George Floyd

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A world where we believe that anyone deserves to die is a world devoid of humanity.


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Capitalism, Class, Inequality Chicago Chronicles Hate Crime Legislation

On Adam Toledo As A Child

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How different would our responses be if Toledo had been an adult facing the police and dropping the gun in exactly the same situation?


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

WeWork Or, Give People Money

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Money is a construct.


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

AOC and the Weaponisation of Trauma

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It is a particular irony of the times we live in that a woman of colour helps to suspend any ongoing awareness of the deathliness of American history by retelling her personal trauma. 


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