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Back to EpisodesThe Trouble with White Feminism: Ep 3 with Kim-Hong Nguyen
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In the third episode of "The Trouble with White Feminism" series, Jessie Daniels interviews Kim-Hong Nguyen, professor at University of Waterloo, in Ontario, Canada, and author of Mean Girl Feminism: How White Feminists Gaslight, Gatekeep, and Girlboss (University of Illinois Press, 2024). This conversation takes us through the IHRA definition of antisemitism - which has been discussed here on the podcast before - and connects it to other forms of “supremacism,” including white imperial feminism.
Nguyen, Kim Hong. Mean Girl Feminism: How White Feminists Gaslight, Gatekeep, and Girlboss (University of Illinois Press, 2024). https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p087684
Nguyen, Kim Hong. "Contemporary Fascism’s de-Judified Homo Sacer." Cultural Politics 11, no. 3 (2015): 315-328. https://read.dukeupress.edu/cultural-politics/article/11/3/315/25823/Contemporary-Fascism-s-de-Judified-Homo-Sacer
International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, working definition of antisemitism
https://holocaustremembrance.com/resources/working-definition-antisemitism
Kenneth Stern, one of the drafters of this definition, with regrets about it (from 2019):
“I drafted the definition of antisemitism. Rightwing Jews are weaponizing it.”