Rafia Zakaria is the Pakistani-American author of Against White Feminism, a columnist for The Baffler, and a human rights lawyer. She's also a former Director of Amnesty International. Rafia explains what happened when she wrote a column in The Baffler about how the New York Time's podcast Caliphate was filled with lies. Rafia and Gabe also talk about Angelina Jolie's activist posts on Instagram.

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About the Host:

Gabe Hudson is the author of 2 books published from Knopf. His honors include being named one of Granta’s “Best of Young American Novelists,” PEN/Hemingway Award Finalist, the Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, the John Hawkes Prize in Fiction from Brown University, a fellowship from Humanities War & Peace Initiative at Columbia University, and Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His writing has appeared in Granta, The New Yorker, The Believer, McSweeney’s, and The New York Times Magazine. He was Editor-at-Large for McSweeney’s for 10+ years. He served in the Marine Corps. He teaches at Columbia University.  

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