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The Trouble with White Feminism: Ep 5 with Lara Sheehi
In the fifth and final episode of “The Trouble with White Feminism” series, Jessie Daniels talks to ICSZ founding collective member Lara Sheehi about maintaining clarity about the material reality of Zionist settler colonialism while resisting psycho-affective tactics that Zionists use to unsettle us.Sheehi, Lara, and Stephen Sheehi. Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine. Routledge, 2021.https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9780429487880/psychoanalysis-occupation-lara-sheehi-stephen-sheehi Sheehi, Stephen. "Psychoanalysis under occupation: Nonviolence and dialogue initiatives as a psychic extension of the closure system." Psychoanalysis and History 20, no. 3 (2018): 353-369.Stovall, Natasha. “Whiteness on the Couch,” Longreads, 12 August 2019.https://longreads.com/2019/08/12/whiteness-on-the-couch/ The Zionist playbook is literally thisHasbara Handbook: https://www.middle-east-info.org/take/wujshasbara.pdf Mary Louise Fellows and Sherene Razack, The Race to Innocence: Confronting Hierarchical Relations among Women, 1 J. Gender Race & Just. 335 (1998), available at https://scholarship.law.umn.edu/faculty_articles/274.Tuck, Eve, and K. Wayne Yang: "Decolonization Is Not a Metaphor," Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education, & Society 1, no. 1 (2012): 1–40. Wekker, Gloria. White Innocence: Paradoxes of Colonialism and Race. (2016). Duke: Durham, NC. https://read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/86/White-InnocenceParadoxes-of-Colonialism-and-Race
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The Trouble with White Feminism: Ep 4 with Jessie Daniels
In the fourth episode of "The Trouble with White Feminism" series, Kim-Hong Nguyen talks to Jessie Daniels, author of Nice White Ladies, about white ladies celebrities. They unpack why white Jewish celebrities like Debra Messing, Amy Schumer, and Sheryl Sandberg stake a claim on their brand of feminism in service of Zionism.Daniels, Jessie. Nice White Ladies: The Truth about White Supremacy, Our Role In It, and How We Can Help Dismantle It (Seal Press, 2021). https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/jessie-daniels/nice-white-ladies/9781541675865/
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The Trouble with White Feminism: Ep 3 with Kim-Hong Nguyen
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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The Trouble with White Feminism: Ep 2 with Melissa Weiner
In this episode, Jessie Daniels and Kim-Hong Nguyen ask Melissa Weiner about her work exploring the affective ties that the Zionist project generates through Birthright trips and summer camps and how these ties become imbricated within heteropatriarchy and settler colonialism. “The Blue Box” - documentaryhttps://www.norma.co.il/blue-box/https://www.cineaste.com/winter2023/blue-box“Birthright Israel and #MeToo”https://jewishcurrents.org/birthright-israel-and-metooDr. Ruth, Sniperhttps://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/dr-ruth-sniper“How Broadway Helped the Zionist Revolt Against Britain”https://newlinesmag.com/essays/how-broadway-helped-the-zionist-revolt-against-britain/
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The Trouble with White Feminism: Ep 1 with Randa Tawil
In the first episode of our special mini-series "The Trouble with White Feminism," host Jessie Daniels interviews Randa Tawil about the ways that white feminism serves the Zionist project.Randa Tawil is an Assistant Professor of Women and Gender Studies at Texas Christian University and a fellow at the American Council of Learned Societies. Tawil is also a member of the Palestinian Feminist Collective.Resources:Tawil, Randa. "A" Flying Carpet to Doom": Retracing Gender and Orientalism through the Transnational Journeys of a Syrian Migrant Woman, 1912–1949." Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 43, no. 1 (2022): 120-144. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/846735 Embodied Archives of the Armenian Genocide, by Elyse Semerdjian (Stanford University Press, 2023). https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=29963 Tawil, Randa. Race in Transit: Mobilities between Syria and U.S. Empire (forthcoming, Stanford University Press).
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