Serene J. Khader

2 months ago | yesmagazine.org | Breanna Draxler |Serene J. Khader

On that hazy June day in 2022 when the Supreme Court ruled that there was no constitutional right to abortion, one thing was clear: This had been a long time coming. Feminists needed to roll up our sleeves. We needed a long-term plan. And we couldn’t just assume that what we had been doing up to this point was working. The court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson may have been designed to send pregnant people back to the 1950s, but the oral arguments surfaced an idea that could only be at home today.

2 months ago | princetonlibrary.libnet.info | Julian Zelizer |Yusef Komunyakaa |Serene J. Khader |Melissa Caughey

About the project:The Virgin Mary is the world’s most storied person. For two millennia, countless stories have been told about the miracles the Mother of Jesus Christ has performed for the faithful who call upon her name. Africans were among the first to compose stories about her and over the centuries folk tellers from Egypt, Nubia, and Ethiopia have written 1,000 short, meaningful narratives about her and healing, reparative justice, and personal ethics in a violent world.

Dec 19, 2024 | crookedtimber.org | Serene J. Khader

I knew when my most recent book was assigned an end-of-October publication date that I would spend much of my book tour processing the election and its aftermath. As the title suggests, Faux Feminism: Why We Fall for White Feminism and How We Can Stop is partly a meditation on the future of feminism.

Nov 4, 2024 | newrepublic.com | Serene J. Khader

As the final weeks of the election have become a race for women’s votes, we have met a new JD Vance. The once-sarcastic defender against a nation run by “childless cat ladies” has been replaced with a man with a softer side. Recently, Vance has described being a working mom as “extraordinarily difficult,” empathized with “a young Black female” who caught sidelong glances as she rode the train with her preschoolers, and opened up about how he wishes he had been parented.

Oct 31, 2024 | yesmagazine.org | Serene J. Khader

As it becomes increasingly likely that women will decide this presidential election, both parties are scrambling for women’s votes. Kamala Harris continues to position herself as the “girls’” candidate by foregrounding abortion rights and appearing with Beyoncé and on podcasts like Call Her Daddy. Meanwhile, Donald Trump and J.D. Vance seem to be recognizing that a campaign whose gendered messaging has consisted almost entirely of overt misogyny is not doing them any favors with women voters.