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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?…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-ahmed/let-s-take-this-figure-of-the-feminist-killjoy-seriously-does-the/)

[Sara Ahmed](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sara-ahmed/)

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## More by Sara Ahmed

> [“Feminist consciousness can be thought of as consciousness of the violence and power concealed under the languages of civility, happiness, and love, rather than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-ahmed/feminist-consciousness-can-be-thought-of-as-consciousness-of-the/)

[Sara Ahmed](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sara-ahmed/)

> [“If we start close to home, we open ourselves out. I will try to show how, in making sense of things that happen, we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-ahmed/if-we-start-close-to-home-we-open-ourselves-out-i-will-try-to-show/)

[Sara Ahmed](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sara-ahmed/)

> [“The personal is theoretical.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-ahmed/the-personal-is-theoretical/)

[Sara Ahmed](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sara-ahmed/)

> [“Where we find happiness teaches us what we value rather than simply what is of value.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-ahmed/where-we-find-happiness-teaches-us-what-we-value-rather-than-simply/)

[Sara Ahmed](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sara-ahmed/)

> [“Let's take the figure of the feminist killjoy seriously. One feminist project could be to give the killjoy back her voice. Whilst hearing feminists…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-ahmed/let-s-take-the-figure-of-the-feminist-killjoy-seriously-one-feminist/)

[Sara Ahmed](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sara-ahmed/)

> [“When you expose a problem you pose a problem. It might then be assumed that the problem would go away if you would just…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-ahmed/when-you-expose-a-problem-you-pose-a-problem-it-might-then-be-assumed/)

[Sara Ahmed](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sara-ahmed/)

> [“But think of this: those of us who arrive in an academy that was not shaped by or for us bring knowledges, as well…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-ahmed/but-think-of-this-those-of-us-who-arrive-in-an-academy-that-was-not/)

[Sara Ahmed](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sara-ahmed/)

> [“To live a feminist life is to make everything into something that is questionable. The question of how to live a feminist life is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-ahmed/to-live-a-feminist-life-is-to-make-everything-into-something-that-is/)

[Sara Ahmed](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sara-ahmed/)

> [“I think of feminism as poetry; we hear histories in words; we reassemble histories by putting them into words.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-ahmed/i-think-of-feminism-as-poetry-we-hear-histories-in-words-we/)

[Sara Ahmed](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sara-ahmed/)

> [“Queer and feminist worlds are built through the effort to support those who are not supported because of who they are, what they want,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-ahmed/queer-and-feminist-worlds-are-built-through-the-effort-to-support/)

[Sara Ahmed](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sara-ahmed/)

> [“To be a feminist at work is or should be about how we challenge ordinary and everyday sexism, including academic sexism. This is not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-ahmed/to-be-a-feminist-at-work-is-or-should-be-about-how-we-challenge/)

[Sara Ahmed](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sara-ahmed/)

> [“By using the idea of sweaty concepts, I am also trying to show how descriptive work is conceptual work. A concept is worldly, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-ahmed/by-using-the-idea-of-sweaty-concepts-i-am-also-trying-to-show-how/)

[Sara Ahmed](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sara-ahmed/)

> [“The impossibility of 'fellow feeling' is itself the confirmation of injury. The call of such pain, as a pain that cannot be shared through…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-ahmed/the-impossibility-of-fellow-feeling-is-itself-the-confirmation-of/)

[Sara Ahmed](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sara-ahmed/)

> [Solidarity does not assume that our struggles are the same struggles, or that our pain is the same pain, or that our hope is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-ahmed/solidarity-does-not-assume-that-our-struggles-are-the-same-struggles/)

[Sara Ahmed](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sara-ahmed/)

> [“A significant step for a feminist movement is to recognize what has not ended. And this step is a very hard step. It is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-ahmed/a-significant-step-for-a-feminist-movement-is-to-recognize-what-has/)

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