This week’s exclusive features a casual but thoughtful conversation between Nashwa and Yasmin Nair. Enclosed is a preview, if you want to unlock the full episode you can by subscribing on Patreon or Substack. Together they chat about her article On Nostalgia, Sex Work, and the Dancing Girls of Lahore. They discuss how the courtesan has been and is viewed in Paksitan and how sex work is flattened in the neoliberalized versions of feminism here and elsewhere. They also discuss Armie Hammer and sex panic as well as the culture around how we discuss relationships (please note that this was recorded on January 15th before some additional information on the situation was disclosed—we clearly state in the episode we do not condone violence against women). The two also explore what feminism has become, who it has forgotten and question what we all long for. Yasmin also discusses helps us understand who is and was left behind in the fight for gay marriage.
This episode features a short list of complementary readings on substack - we hope you check them out.
Guest Information:
Guest of the week: Yasmin Nair
Yasmin Nair is a writer, academic, and activist currently based in Hyde Park, Chicago. She is, with Ryan Conrad, a co-founder of the radical editorial collective Against Equality and a member of the Chicago-based radical queer collective Gender JUST. She is currently working on her first book, Strange Love: How Social Justice Was Invented and Why It Needs to Die. Her work has been published in numerous publications and is linked to or found at www.yasminnair.com.
You can follow her on Twitter here.
Additional Resources:
Some readings that compliment this episode :
On Nostalgia, Sex Work, and the Dancing Girls of Lahore by Yasmin Nair
Polyamory Is Gay Marriage for Straight People by Yasmin Nair
Right to Work: Sex Workers in India Organize to Fight Discrimination by Sarita Santoshini
BDSM Can Provide Provide Healing Experiences by Sofia Barrett-Ibarria
“Kink Helped My Mental Health” The Healing Benefits Of BDSM by Yasmin Lajoie
How do we understand sexual pleasure in this age of ‘consent’? by Heidi Matthews
Production Credits:
Hosted by Nashwa Lina Khan
Music by Johnny Zapras and postXamerica
Art for Habibti Please by postXamerica
Production by Nashwa Lina Khan and Johnny Zapras
Production Assistance by Raymond Khanano
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