Philosopher Serene Khader Takes on the Lightning Round!
Welcome to our 'Lightning Round' with 'Other' podcast guest and philosopher Serene Khader! The idea is to ask questions that she — and hopefully you — don't expect, and that the answers will be as equally interesting and hopefully amusing. Please enjoy.
Biographies:
Serene Khader is a philosopher and feminist theorist with areas of research including ethics and moral psychology, political philosophy, and feminist philosophy. She holds the Jay Newman Chair in Philosophy of Culture at Brooklyn College and teaches Philosophy and Women’s and Gender Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her book https://www.beacon.org/Faux-Feminism-P2098.aspx was published by Beacon Press in 2024. Previous books include https://global.oup.com/academic/product/decolonizing-universalism-9780190664206?cc=us&lang=en& (Oxford University Press 2018) and https://global.oup.com/academic/product/adaptive-preferences-and-womens-empowerment-9780199777877?cc=us&lang=en&(Oxford University Press 2011). You can find more of Serene’s work on her https://www.serenekhader.com/.
https://www.chloeaftel.com has spent her career working in commercial photography, photojournalism, and film. She’s an established name in modern photography with work featured in The New York Times, Mother Jones, Playboy, Dazed & Confused, Vogue Germany, The Hollywood Reporter, The Wall Street Journal, Vogue Italia, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, Teen Vogue, and more. Aftel has photographed victims of sexual violence, reported on COVID 19's impact on the trans community, and gained access as the first reporter in COVID wards of the West Coast’s hardest-hit hospitals. She has covered underground abortion providers, the impact of gender pronouns on daily life, and clergy abuse. Aftel's first book, https://www.chloeaftel.com/outside-inbetween, is an award-winning anthology covering gender non-conforming people across the United States.
