- Lived:
- Born 1984, Bahrain · now Oxford, England
- Tradition:
- Contemporary feminist and political philosophy; analytic epistemology turned toward power
- The Big Idea:
- Our desires — whom we want, what we believe, how we live — feel like the most private things about us, but they are shaped by politics and history; seeing that clearly is the first step to freedom, and it is harder than it sounds.
- If you remember one thing:
- She holds two truths at once that most people can only hold one at a time: no one is ever owed sex — and yet who gets desired, and who doesn't, is a political question worth asking.