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Sara Ahmed
Born
in Salford, The United Kingdom
August 30, 1969
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#KilljoySolidarity
The Feminist Killjoy Handbook is out in the world! Bringing it out into the world has taken time – and my blog has been quiet during that time. I am glad to share its arrival here. Please do order the book from independent bookstores, many of whom have got behind the handbook: you can find a list here. If you do read the book, share a picture on twitter (using the hashtag #
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Living a Feminist Life
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2017
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22 editions
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Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others
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2006
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20 editions
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The Promise of Happiness
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2010
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18 editions
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The Cultural Politics of Emotion
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2004
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14 editions
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On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life
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2012
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11 editions
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Complaint!
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2021
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9 editions
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Willful Subjects
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2014
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9 editions
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Strange Encounters: Embodied Others in Post-Coloniality
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2000
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Killjoy Manifest
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What's the Use?: On the Uses of Use
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2019
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6 editions
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“Solidarity does not assume that our struggles are the same struggles, or that our pain is the same pain, or that our hope is for the same future. Solidarity involves commitment, and work, as well as the recognition that even if we do not have the same feelings, or the same lives, or the same bodies, we do live on common ground.”
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“Let’s take this figure of the feminist killjoy seriously. Does the feminist kill other people’s joy by pointing out moments of sexism? Or does she expose the bad feelings that get hidden, displaced, or negated under public signs of joy? Does bad feeling enter the room when somebody expresses anger about things, or could anger be the moment when the bad feelings that circulate through objects get brought to the surface in a certain way?”
― The Promise of Happiness
― The Promise of Happiness
“When you expose a problem you pose a problem. It might then be assumed that the problem would go away if you would just stop talking about or if you went away.”
― Living a Feminist Life
― Living a Feminist Life
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