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=p087684Nguyen, 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-SacerInternational Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, working definition of antisemitismhttps://holocaustremembrance.com/resources/working-definition-antisemitismKenneth 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.”https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/dec/13/antisemitism-executive-order-trump-chilling-effect

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