Believe in Something
Woke campaigns aren’t focused on repairing structural inequities, but on amassing profit for corporate players.
Yasmin Nair
Yasmin Nair is a writer, activist, and academic working on her first book, Strange Love: Neoliberalism, Affect, and the Invention of Social Justice.
Exalted Slogans
What if we foregrounded movements, not the cult of personality and celebrity?
Abortive Reasoning
The tyranny of experience in abortion rights discourse has potentially disastrous consequences.
Complicity, Not Tyranny
May 18, 2017
The anger over Szala's op-ed is like the anger over Trump: it allows us to forget that what’s rotten is an entire system.
Dynasties of Neoliberalism
January 24, 2017
Always a spouse, never the president might be how we end up remembering Hillary Clinton, whose near-thirty-year career ended, dramatically punctuated with a period, at Donald Trump’s inauguration. Her appearance was everything we expected: the tight, frozen smile, the deep ...
Rights Make Might
As the botched chances and bitter disappointments stacked up late into the fateful night of November 8, 2016, the ceiling at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in Manhattan was a soaring collateral casualty. Made of steel-reinforced transparent glass and pitched 150 feet ...