How to Build A More Inclusive Feminism | Serene Khader | TEDxCUNY

Why has feminism sometimes excluded poor women and women of color? Serene Khader argues that the problem lies in a misunderstanding of feminism’s core values. Feminism is about opposition to hierarchy, not individual freedom. Serene reflects on her own experiences as a working mom and makes a philosophical argument grounded in examples of activism by women of color. Join Serene in this exploration of how to build a more inclusive feminism through valuing care work Serene Khader is a moral and political philosopher and feminist theorist. She is an internationally recognized expert on the values that underlie feminist activism, especially the activism of women of color and women in the global South. She is the author of three books, Faux Feminism: Why We Fall for White Feminism and How We Can Stop (Beacon 2024), Decolonizing Universalism: A Transnational Feminist Ethic (Oxford 2019), and Adaptive Preferences and Women’s Empowerment (Oxford 2011), as well as a number of academic articles. Her public-facing work has also been published in venues such as The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and The New Republic. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

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