Wednesday, June 11, 2014

June 9, 2014: Radical queer writer & activist Yasmin Nair

Yasmin Nair


Radical queer writer & activist Yasmin Nair critiques everything from the mainstream lesbian/gay movement's focus on marriage, military rights and hate crimes legislation to writers who write for free on websites that can afford to pay.

On same-sex marriage Nair says that the problem with marriage (straight, same-sex, or whatever the construction) has been that marriage is part of a neo-liberal structure of extreme privatization. She defines neo-liberalism as an increased privatization of resources that were once available to everyone, for example, clear, clean water, housing or healthcare. And on survivors of sexual assault: "And yet, no one considers the obvious solution: That perhaps fucking and producing children is no palliative or solution, and  that not fucking at all ever might actually be a perfectly rational solution to having been harmed, in any way, by fucking."

Yasmin Nair is a member of the Against Equality editorial collective. The collective's writings is published in an anthology called Against Equality: Queer Revolution Not Mere Inclusion is a compilation of radical queer thought.

To subscribe to Yasmin Nair's blog go to: http://www.yasminnair.net/





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Listen to entire show. 59:50 min.

Also on this show:
Preview of the film KATE BORNSTEIN IS A QUEER AND PLEASANT DANGER
Diana Whitten discusses her film, VESSEL
Tribute to revolutionary activist Yuri Kochiyama


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