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Yasmin Nair

Yasmin Nair

American writer and activist

Yasmin Nair is a writer and activist based in Chicago.[1][2] She is also a co-founder, with Ryan Conrad, of Against Equality.[3]

Biography

Nair was born in Kolkata in 1966 [4] and lived there and later in Kathmandu and Mumbai before moving to the U.S.[3] in 1989 to pursue graduate studies.[5] She obtained a PhD in English from Purdue University in 2000.[3]

Her work focuses on neoliberalism and inequality, sex, gender, and queer issues and politics, the politics of rescue and affect, the immigration crisis, sex trafficking, the art world, [6] and state violence.[1][7] It has been published in publications such as In These Times, Monthly Review, The Awl, The Chicago Reader, GLQ, The Progressive, make/shift, Time Out Chicago, The Bilerico Project, Windy City Times, Bitch, Maximum Rock'n'Roll, and No More Potlucks[7] and most of her work is also archived on her personal website.[1]

In March 2013, Nico Lang wrote, "If you've heard of Yasmin Nair, you have an opinion about her. Her work doesn't evoke lukewarm reactions in people. Depending on who you ask, she's a leader, an icon, a teacher, a radical, a contrarian, a troll or all of the above."[3] Some of her pieces are archived on her personal website, including "Gay Marriage IS A Conservative Cause",[3] "'Undocumented': How an Identity Ended a Movement", and "Scabs: Academics and Others Who Write for Free".[7]

References

  1. [1]
    "An Interview with Yasmin Nair, Part One: There's No Rescuing the Concept of Equality". Hypocrite Reader.
  2. [2]
    "Look Who Nick Kristof's Saving Now". coreyrobin.com.
  3. [3]
    "Blogs - Queer activist Yasmin Nair discusses her opposition to marriage equality - WBEZ 91.5 Chicago". wbez.org. Archived from the original on 5 February 2014.
  4. [4]
    "Chicago Gay History".
  5. [5]
    "Why Is America Turning To Shit?". The Awl.
  6. [6]
    "On Cultural Purity". sevenstories.com. Retrieved 2023-04-25.
  7. [7]
    "Yasmin Nair". yasminnair.net.
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