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““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.””

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“Feminist consciousness can be thought of as consciousness of the violence and power concealed under the languages of civility, happiness, and love, rather than…

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“If we start close to home, we open ourselves out. I will try to show how, in making sense of things that happen, we…

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“Where we find happiness teaches us what we value rather than simply what is of value.”

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“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…

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“When you expose a problem you pose a problem. It might then be assumed that the problem would go away if you would just…

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“But think of this: those of us who arrive in an academy that was not shaped by or for us bring knowledges, as well…

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“I think of feminism as poetry; we hear histories in words; we reassemble histories by putting them into words.”

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“Queer and feminist worlds are built through the effort to support those who are not supported because of who they are, what they want,…

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“To be a feminist at work is or should be about how we challenge ordinary and everyday sexism, including academic sexism. This is not…

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“By using the idea of sweaty concepts, I am also trying to show how descriptive work is conceptual work. A concept is worldly, but…

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“The impossibility of 'fellow feeling' is itself the confirmation of injury. The call of such pain, as a pain that cannot be shared through…

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