Yasmin Nair

2 weeks ago | yasminnair.com | Yasmin Nair

Here are links to my latest work, Daily Posts from the archives (May 19-23) in case you missed them, and articles, old and new, from around the internet. My aim is not to give you up to the minute news, but a historical understanding of our current times—too many people see everything going on as uniquely special to the current moment. You can follow me on Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Facebook (I am not accepting new friends on the last platform, but you can use the “follow” option).

2 weeks ago | yasminnair.com | Yasmin Nair

At this year’s Cannes Film Festival opening, Juliette Binoche, president of the jury, made a grand appearance to commemorate the murder of  Palestinian photojournalist Fatma Hassona in an Israeli air strike. Only hours earlier, she had been asked by Al-Jazeera about her decision to not sign an open letter denouncing the film industry’s silence around Hassona’s death. She responded first with silence, then coyly said that all would be revealed later.

2 weeks ago | yasminnair.com | Yasmin Nair

If you like this, please support my work. In 2015, I wrote “Are Private Prisons Really the Problem?” Ten years later, I find myself forced to repost it, often, because the conversation on the matter appears has not changed one bit. When I wrote my short essay, the discourse on the privatisation of prisons by entities like the Geo corporation had only just begun, and prison abolitionists like Angela Davis, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, and Mariame Kaba were finally being heard.

3 weeks ago | yasminnair.com | Yasmin Nair

Here are links to Daily Posts from the archives (May 12-16) in case you missed them, and articles, old and new, from around the internet. My aim is not to give you up to the minute news, but a historical understanding of our current times—too many people see everything going on as uniquely special to the current moment. You can follow me on Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Facebook (I am not accepting new friends on the last platform, but you can use the “follow” option).

1 month ago | yasminnair.com | Yasmin Nair

Here are links to my latest work, Daily Posts from the archives (May 5-8) in case you missed them, and articles, old and new, from around the internet. My aim is not to provide you with up to the minute news, but with a historical understanding of our current times—too many people see everything going on as uniquely special to the current moment.