You might be speaking quietly, but you are beginning to feel wound up, recognizing with frustration that you are being wound up by someone who is winding you up. The feminist killjoy appears here: when she speaks, she seems wound up. I appear here. This is my history: wound up.” ― Sara Ahmed, Living a Feminist Life

“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?

2024年12月3日 · Killjoy Equation: Rolling Eyes = Feminist Pedagogy. I did say that. To become a feminist killjoy is to refuse to concede by letting a problem recede. We make a commitment, which I think of as the core killjoy commitment. Killjoy Commitment: I am willing to cause unhappiness. I became willing to cause unhappiness because of what I learnt from ...

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?

2017年7月17日 · “Feminism is a sensible reaction to the injustices of the world,” writes Sara Ahmed, self-described feminist killjoy. In Living a Feminist Life, her latest work, Ahmed considers how her own understanding of feminism has developed as a way of “making sense of what doesn’t make sense.”

2024年2月21日 · In The Feminist Killjoy Handbook, Ahmed extends this inquiry. With astonishingly clear and economical prose, she examines the ways in which self-doubt and isolation—but also solidarity—can ...

2023年9月14日 · 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 ...

2024年11月5日 · 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?

Living a Feminist Life (2017) is a feminist theory text by British-Australian scholar and writer Sara Ahmed, an academic working in the fields of critical theory, feminist philosophy, queer theory, and critical race theory.

In this quote, Ahmed argues that the process of awakening to feminist consciousness is linked to experiences of violence (physical, verbal, emotional) that women face in the world. She envisions feminism as both a consequence of that violence and