“To live a feminist life is to make everything into something that is questionable. The question of how to live a feminist life is alive as a question as well as being a life question.” — Sara Ahmed Copy Share Image
“Feminist consciousness can be thought of as consciousness of the violence and power concealed under the languages of civility, happiness, and love, rather than… — Sara Ahmed Copy Share
“If we start close to home, we open ourselves out. I will try to show how, in making sense of things that happen, we… — Sara Ahmed Copy Share
“Where we find happiness teaches us what we value rather than simply what is of value.” — Sara Ahmed Copy Share
“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… — Sara Ahmed Copy Share
“When you expose a problem you pose a problem. It might then be assumed that the problem would go away if you would just… — Sara Ahmed Copy Share
“But think of this: those of us who arrive in an academy that was not shaped by or for us bring knowledges, as well… — Sara Ahmed Copy Share
“To live a feminist life is to make everything into something that is questionable. The question of how to live a feminist life is… — Sara Ahmed Copy Share
“I think of feminism as poetry; we hear histories in words; we reassemble histories by putting them into words.” — Sara Ahmed Copy Share
“Queer and feminist worlds are built through the effort to support those who are not supported because of who they are, what they want,… — Sara Ahmed Copy Share
“To be a feminist at work is or should be about how we challenge ordinary and everyday sexism, including academic sexism. This is not… — Sara Ahmed Copy Share
“By using the idea of sweaty concepts, I am also trying to show how descriptive work is conceptual work. A concept is worldly, but… — Sara Ahmed Copy Share
“The impossibility of 'fellow feeling' is itself the confirmation of injury. The call of such pain, as a pain that cannot be shared through… — Sara Ahmed Copy Share
Solidarity does not assume that our struggles are the same struggles, or that our pain is the same pain, or that our hope is… — Sara Ahmed Copy Share
“A significant step for a feminist movement is to recognize what has not ended. And this step is a very hard step. It is… — Sara Ahmed Copy Share
