Only solidarity can offer an antidote to the patriarchy’s structural misogyny masterminding an authoritarian backlash against the emergence of transnational intersectional feminism.

This is why we are so grateful that MIT’s “Feminism Unbound” series regularly brings together renowned scholars with deep disdain for bourgeoisie culture, American exceptionalism, cisnormative sex, and extractive capitalism to educate us on how to leverage our grievances in order to transform the world into a diverse, inclusive, and equalitarian utopia.

This month’s luminaries did not disappoint. Sherena Razek, whose landmark scholarship on “Nakba Ecologies” reveals that Palestinian wildfires constitute a sophisticated form of armed resistance, explained that Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg represent a “cult of celebrity” brand of fascism made possible by “the stage of capitalism that we are at now.”

Cinzia Arruzza, a Boston University professor of ancient Greek philosophy who somehow pivoted to co-authoring Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto, gravely informed attendees that most of her activism has focused on “austerity at the New School and then Palestine.” Her nuanced observation that “the immigrant rapist” is merely “the European version of the Black rapist” left the Zoom audience breathless with admiration.

Moderating with a man-bun of revolutionary proportions was Andrés Henao Castro of UMass Boston, the panel’s sole male, who demonstrated exquisite feminist allyship by nodding vigorously at every word salad they spewed.

We were particularly moved by Jeanelle Hope’s solemn citation of Toni Morrison’s warning that fascism “shows up in Oscar Mayer Wiener and Coca-Cola.” The threat is everywhere, people! Don’t you understand that they are trying to force feminists to take on the work of social reproduction?

MIT, we salute you. Only an institution of your singular stature could convene scholars of this caliber while your engineering students are busy keeping America’s defense industrial base alive in the next building over.