Simha Harari has a Bachelor’s Degree in Philosophy from Universidad Iberoamericana. She studied Introduction to Contemporary Jewish Thought at Universidad Hebráica, Anthropology of Monsters in Culture at Casa del Lago UNAM, and a workshop on Narrative at U-tópicas Library. She has worked as a writer and editor in different contexts, including Editorial Planeta Mexico and the digital magazine El Toro Salvaje. She was an author in the project Woman: Mix Media (Mujer: Técnica Mixta in Spanish), where she wrote creative texts to represent the stories of women belonging to the Jewish Mexican Community.
After graduating, I felt that I was being cheated on. I thought I would learn about the “great truths of the universe,” in turn, I learned about a single perspective. Western, white, heterosexual, male. That is most of the philosophy curriculum at Universidad Iberoamericana. I did not see a flinch of Jewish, Latin American, or Oriental philosophy. However, I later tried to fill in the gaps myself.
My dissertation was on studies of the monstrous.
My stand as a woman from the Jewish Community influenced me to study gender and Jewish thought.
Academic privilege. I grew up in a heavily privileged context (not to say bourgeois). When I was little, I had an annual Club Penguin membership, you get the idea.
All thought is autoethnographical in some way. In this blog, I will write about my experience in the humanitarian world, which is, of course, contaminated (in the good and bad sense) by my background in philosophy, my personal life, and my writing in other contexts.
