Reframing Feminism with Dr. Serene Khader
...also chopped salad & focaccia
We love reading books that express things we actually may have always known in our hearts, but previously didn't have the language for. Dr. Serene Khader’s book Faux Feminism: Why We Fall for White Feminism and How We Can Stop was one such book for Nat, and so we brought Serene on Reframeables to talk more about her work and break down the book for an absent Rebecca. We talked about feminism’s changing landscape in North America and beyond, and then we added “sex therapist” to Serene’s résumé as we talked about the orgasm gap and how an understanding of intersectional feminism will make for better sex. We even got into how Serene was inspired by Reframeables and now wants to start a podcast with her sister!
Serene Khader is a writer, political philosopher, and feminist theorist based in Brooklyn, New York. She is the author of Faux Feminism: Why We Fall for White Feminism and How We Can Stop (2024) and Decolonizing Universalism: A Transnational Feminist Ethic (2019), among other works. She is professor of philosophy at the CUNY Graduate Center and holds the Jay Newman Chair in Philosophy of Culture at Brooklyn College.
Links:
Faux Feminism: Why We Fall for White Feminism and How We Can Stop
For more from Serene, check out her website and follow her on Twitter
Friend of the pod Canisia Lubrin just won the Carol Shields prize for her brilliant book Code Noir. Check out our interview with her here. This is an interview that made me sweat because she’s so smart!
I’m enlisting my husband Simon to make focaccia for our wine night this Friday, where we are pairing five wines with five book readings. Someone said focaccia is the right thing to serve at wine tastings! Natalie is making tiny salami sandwiches and she’s cutting off all the crusts.
Another great idea that doesn’t have to do with wine nights or foccacia: chopped salad in a wooden bowl. Simon and I took a mini trip to Chicago and were delighted with this satisfying salad full of avocado, radishes, carrots, celery—chopped coarsely. It seems like something we should all be making every week!!
UPCOMING DATE TO RESERVE IN YOUR CALENDAR: JUNE 8TH from 6:30pm to 8:30pm we'll be hosting a live podcast conversation with celebrated Irish-Canadian author Emma Donoghue (of book and movie Room). Details will be shared about where in the coming days, but get the when in your icals asap!