On Wednesday, Sept. 28, Alex King, associate professor of philosophy at Simon Fraser University, gave a lecture on cultural appropriation. The Mount Holyoke Department of Philosophy hosted her lecture, “Cornrows and a Qipao: Cultural Appropriation and Objectifying the Other,” which was open to Mount Holyoke students and faculty. During the lecture, King focused on her thesis, telling the audience how “cultural appropriation is wrong — generally speaking — when and because it objectifies the appropriatees.”