28 Quotes by Sara Ahmed

So much of feminist and antiracist work is the work of trying to convince others that sexism and racism have not ended

Every writer is first a reader, and what we read matters.

Jag tänker på feminism som poesi; vi hör hela historier i ett ord; vi sätter samman historier genom att klä dem i ord,

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 as killjoys might be a form of dismissal, there is an agency that this dismissal rather ironically reveals. We can respond to the accusation with a "yes.

You can kill joy by not looking happy enough.

Pain involves the violation or transgression of the border between inside and outside, and it is through this transgression that I feel the border in the first place.

When you have to fight for an existence, fighting can become an existence.

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.

When you expose a problem you pose a problem. It might then be assumed that the problem would go away if you would just stop talking about or if you went away.