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Feminism On Books and Publishing

On Jane Austen’s Frederic and Elfrida

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As if marital forms and not marriage itself were the problem…


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Politics

“Elections Have Consequences”: Why We Should Scrap The Current System

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Pandemic

Shame

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People writing about disease love metaphors, so here’s one for you: the mask is a condom for your face. 


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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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Updates Yasmin's Media Appearances

Forty Pieces: A Sampling of My Work

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People and Places to Support

People and Places to Support, 2019

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I’m often asked, “What are the publications and organizations and people you support?” So, in response, I’ve made up this set of lists, which I’ll add to as time goes on.


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

Adopting Difference: Race, Sex, and the Archaeology of Power in the Farrow-Allen Case

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Taking all these intertwining histories and locutions of power into account reveals an archaeology of power, a sedimented history, an archaeology of power spanning not just Farrow’s life, but a cultural history of the link between celebrity, adoption, and the idealisation of the nation-state. Originally published May 3, 2014


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Updates

Update: On Publishing, Plagiarism, Philz Coffee, and Persistence

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If there is one thing I’m really happy about, it’s my writing.  I’m exploring new topics and even genres and very happy stretching my muscles with all the new work I’ve got planned.  


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