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Koch-Rein, Anson (9 November 2015). "NWSA Conference 2015". Anson Koch-Rein, PhD. Archived from the original on 14 October 2016 . Retrieved 22 September 2016. Ahmed presents a careful and sophisticated analysis of power and its abuses in universities." — Baharak Yousefi, College & Research Libraries

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The sound of an alarm bell announces a danger in the external world even if you hear the sound inside your own head. We don’t always take heed of what we hear. She starts questioning herself rather than his behaviour. She tells herself off; she gives herself a talking to. In questioning herself, she also exercises violent stereotypes of feminists as feminazis even though she identifies as a feminist. External judgements can be given voice as internal doubt. But she keeps noticing it, that the syllabus is occupied; how it is occupied: “he left any thinker who wasn’t a white man essentially until the end of the course.” He introduces a woman thinker as “not a very sophisticated thinker.” She comes to realise that her first impression that something was wrong was right: “and then I was like, no, no, no, no, things are wrong not just in terms of gender, things are desperately wrong with the way he is teaching full-stop.” When she realises, she was right to hear that something was wrong; those no’s come out. I think of all of those no’s, no, no, no, no, the sound of an increasing confidence in her own judgement.Maldonado-Torres, Nelson. 2016. “ Outline of ten theses on coloniality and decoloniality.” Accessed 17 th Jan, 2022. The doorways in my white body are populated with these kinds of ghosts too: the colonising kind, the racist kind. Should I attune to them? Can I learn from them? From their “immanence”? Intersectionality is essential to Ahmed's feminism. She states that "intersectionality is a starting point, the point from which we must proceed if we are to offer an account of how power works." [17] She agrees with bell hooks, stating that if we aim to end sexism etc., we must also look at the other things attached, like racism and colonial power which molded our current society. [17] To Ahmed, intersectionality is how we "make a point of how we come into existence." [18] "How we can experience intersections," though, can be "frustrating, exhausting, painful." [19] Feminist Killjoy' Sara Ahmed to be appointed new honorary doctor at Malmö University | Malmö University". Sara Ahmed: "Once We Find Each Other, So Much Else Becomes Possible" | Literary Hub". lithub.com. 10 April 2017 . Retrieved 29 March 2018.

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References can be doors: how some are given a route through, how others are stopped from progressing. When the door is closed on her complaint, and also on her, she will not be there, bringing to the institution what she might have brought to it, the door is kept open for him. When the door is open for him, he can keep doing because what he has been doing where he has been doing it: behind closed doors. This is another insightful book in Ahmed’s well-regarded series of considerations of what acting as a feminist in non-feminist institutions means. . . . Highly recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty; professionals." — Choice Ahmed's blog, "feministkilljoys", was written at the same time as "Living a Feminist Life" (2017). [41] As the title suggests, Ahmed explores feminist theory, and what it means on our everyday lives. One way this manifests is in diversity work, something to which she dedicated a third of the book. She also spends much of the book exploring the feminist killjoy, the feminist in action who takes up the call in their everyday life. [42] In 2020, Duke University Press confirmed that Living a Feminist Life was their best-selling book of the previous decade. [43] What's the Use? On the Uses of Use [ edit ]Closing a door can sometimes be a survival strategy; she closes the door to the institution by withdrawing herself, her commitments, from it. She still does her work; she still teaches her students. She uses the door to shut out what she can, who she can. She takes herself off the door; she depersonalises it. And she pulls down the blinds and she pulls on a mask, the mask of her people, connecting her fight to the battles that came before, because, quite frankly, for her, this is a war. People - Centre for Gender and Women's studies, Lancaster University, UK". www.lancaster.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 1 November 2016 . Retrieved 26 September 2016. A complaint can be the effort to be accommodated. An academic describes how she has to keep pointing out that rooms are inaccessible because they keep booking rooms that are inaccessible: “I worry about drawing attention to myself. But this is what happens when you hire a person in a wheelchair. There have been major access issues at the university.” She spoke of “the drain, the exhaustion, the sense of why should I have to be the one who speaks out.” You have to speak out because others do not; and because you speak out others can justify their own silence; they hear you, so it becomes about you, “major access issues” become your issues. I was also reminded of Thurgood Marshall ((former Justice of the Supreme Court of the US) rephrasing “We the People…” to “We the people are no longer enslaved” Thank you for all your work, which we enjoy reading here in Ohio. When you are again taking engagements, please get in touch because we would love to host you in a way you find supportive.

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Simpson, Hannah (7 October 2016). "Willful Subjects by Sara Ahmed (review)". College Literature. 43 (4): 749–752. doi: 10.1353/lit.2016.0043. ISSN 1542-4286.We might laugh, we do laugh, but we also groan with recognition. If you are followed by rolling eyes, you are followed by eyes, you stand out; you end up under scrutiny. One time she is introduced by a student as a lesbian head of department, “there was some discussion of that with colleagues, like I had some banner to fly, pushing students to get involved with this.” Just being called a lesbian head of department can be heard as pushing an agenda. Some are judged as being pushy, imposing themselves just by virtue of not being or doing more of the same. It should not surprise us that a “pushy minority” can morph into a bully. And, members of her department submitted an informal complaint to human resources identifying her as a bully. You can be called a bully just by being called or calling yourself a minority. You can be kept out by what you find out when you get in. And yet consider how diversity is often figured as an open door, turned into a tagline; tag on, tag along; minorities welcome, come in, come in! Just because they welcome you, it does not mean they expect you to turn up. Remember the post-box that became a nest? There could be another sign on the post-box: “birds welcome.” Athanasiou, Athena; Hantzaroula, Pothiti; Yannakopoulos, Kostas (2008). "Towards a New Epistemology: The "Affective Turn" ". Historein. 8: 5–16. doi: 10.12681/historein.33. ISSN 2241-2816. In such a spirit of questioning, Sara Ahmed has developed a groundbreaking theory of the cultural politics of emotion, one that interweaves emotions, language and bodies while attending to the intersections of gender, race, class, sexuality and nation. Ahmed was awarded an honorary doctorate from Malmö University, Sweden. [23] She gave a lecture, "Feminists at Work: Diversity, Complaint, Institutions" as honorary doctor. [24] Works [ edit ]

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Formal complaints can sound just like the master’s tools—bureaucratic, dry, tedious—but they’re also where you actually come to hear and learn about institutional mechanics, how institutions reproduce themselves. Complaint! offers catharsis, collectivity, and care. It is an archive of complaint, it is a radical call to action, and it is a feminist record. It is also beautifully written, deeply painful, and absolutely necessary at this very moment.” — Catherine Oliver, Gender, Place & Culture There are many ways we can be shut out – from institutions, from categories of personhood, from ourselves, even. One woman of colour describes her department as a revolving door: women and minorities enter only to head right out again: whoosh, whoosh.

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Published by Duke University Press in 2014. [38] Ahmed focuses on the idea of willfulness as resistance. She adds that willfulness involves persistence in having been brought down. Ahmed's goal throughout this book was to "spill the container" as willfulness provides a container for perversion. [39] Living a Feminist Life [ edit ] Sara Ahmed Complaint! Durham: Duke University Press, 2021. 376 pp. | Canadian Journal of Law and Society / La Revue Canadienne Droit et Société | Cambridge Core This is another insightful book in Ahmed’s well-regarded series of considerations of what acting as a feminist in non-feminist institutions means. . . . Highly recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty; professionals." Ahmed] presents a strong argument that power in higher education tends to protect itself, that diversity initiatives are often nothing more than window dressing, and that those who file complaints about a hostile work environment often face accusations of disloyalty or troublemaking. . . . Most of the charges here are broad and general, but anyone who has worked in higher education will recognize much of what Ahmed brings to light. Sharp criticism of an overlooked systemic problem in higher education."