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Capitalism, Class, Inequality Film, Art, Television, and Media Immigration Queer Politics, Culture, and History Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

On Hasan Minhaj, Trauma Passports, and Immigrant Fictions

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Capitalism, Class, Inequality Film, Art, Television, and Media Immigration Labour

On Titan, Migrants, and Mourning

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Capitalism, Class, Inequality Feminism Film, Art, Television, and Media Immigration Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

I Wrote About Sharbat Gula for Evergreen Review

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Immigration

DACA Was Always DOA: Let’s End It Now

Excerpt: DACA doesn’t need to be fortified. DACA needs to die. 

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Immigration On Books and Publishing

Jacobinned: The Story Behind the Story Jacobin Refused to Publish

Our work and analyses face the greatest obstacles not from the familiar bogey-man, the Right, but from a Left which is terrified of being called racist because it has painted itself into the corner of identitarianism, where politics is judged solely by the history of oppressions that can be claimed.

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Immigration Labour

“Undocumented”: How an Identity Ended a Movement

Excerpt: Capital and capitalism flow unimpeded through the body of the “Undocumented and Unafraid” immigrant figure, whose only purpose is to solidify the presence of a benevolent neoliberal state through a litany of affective narratives.

The Immigrants' Ship

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Chicago Chronicles Feminism Immigration

On Malayalam and Melancholia

Excerpt: Am I melancholy because I am alive, or am I alive because I am melancholy?

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Capitalism, Class, Inequality Immigration Queer Politics, Culture, and History

Romancing the Border: Or, Making (Self) Deportation Sexy

Stop buying this bullshit, people, and start asking the hard questions.

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Chicago Dyke March Collective hosts immigration forum

Since 2008, the Chicago Dyke March Collective (CDMC) has held its annual march in locations outside the city’s traditional Andersonville neighborhood. The CDMC has also, in recent years, sought to engage communities by organizing forums on topics relevant to the area it marches in.

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Immigration Yasmin's Media Appearances

Radio Interview with Karma Chávez on Wisconsin Public Radio, WORT

I recently did an interview with my friend, collaborator, and fellow Against Equality collective member Dr.Karma Chávez on Wisconsin Public Radio, WORT (89.9 fm), out of Madison.  We talked about my piece, “Undocumented vs. Illegal: A Distinction without a Difference,” and related matters. 

You can listen to it here.