Yasmin Nair
Editor at Large at Current Affairs
Journalist, Writer and Photographer at Freelance
Activist at Freelance
Co-founder, Against Equality, Editor at Large, Current Affairs, Gender JUST. Stalks your cats.
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1 day ago |
yasminnair.com | Yasmin Nair
I posted this as a quick comment on Facebook, but realised it might make more sense to turn it into a quick, blog-gy piece instead. I’ll be writing more of these very short pieces in the future. Posting them on my site gives them more permanence and searchability. Thank you for reading and reposting. It’s so, so easy to make fun of Donald Trump.
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2 days ago |
yasminnair.com | Yasmin Nair
If you like this, please consider supporting my work. Of all the movies in the Alien franchise, the third is the darkest of them all. It is literally dark, with much of the action taking place in dimly lit corridors, winding spaces, and mineshafts. It is also thematically bleak, set on the penal colony planet Fiorina “Fury” 161, to which the worst male criminals have been sent to be the workforce in an abandoned mining venture.
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3 days ago |
yasminnair.com | Yasmin Nair
Last week, Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska publicly stated, “We are all afraid.” She went on to say, “It’s quite a statement. But we are in a time and a place where I certainly have not been here before…And I’ll tell you, I am oftentimes very anxious myself about using my voice, because retaliation is real. And that’s not right.”Murkowski’s words have earned her both sympathy and criticism, with more of the latter.
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1 week ago |
yasminnair.com | Yasmin Nair
Here is this week’s Update, with links to my latest work, Daily Posts from the archives (April 14-18) in case you missed them, and some interesting articles from around the internet. 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). You can find previous Updates here. If you like this, please consider supporting my work.
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1 week ago |
yasminnair.com | Yasmin Nair
The last few months have seen the Democrats scramble to justify their very existence. Over and over, they have caved in to the demands of an administration that is determined to move very fast, break things, and openly defy whatever we might now define as the law of the land. In all this chaos, it has become clear that the public is wearying of the same old politics.
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For reasons made clear in this week's NEW essay, this one from the archive is especially relevant! "Is there such a thing as truly original work? Well, yes. And, also, well, no." https://t.co/9ghdbBQJo7
For reasons made clear in this week's NEW essay, this one from the archive is especially relevant! "Is there such a thing as truly original work? Well, yes. And, also, well, no." https://t.co/9ghdbBQbyz
"Fear Is Not an Option." "We either begin to work against such a culture of fear or watch a sense of everyday terror become that which immobilises us." https://t.co/BZnR7Usirl
