Sara Ahmed is a feminist writer, scholar, and activist. She is the author of Willful Subjects, On Being Included, The Promise of Happiness, and Queer Phenomenology, all also published by Duke University Press.
"A feminist history is affective: we pick up those feelings that are not supposed to be felt because they get in the way of an expectation of who we are and what life should be. No wonder feminism acquires such a negative charge: being against happiness, being against life. It is not simply that we f"
"Jenna, an unhappily married woman, arrives at a doctor’s office and says she is pregnant. The doctor responds sympathetically by offering her his congratulations. His sympathy is not in response to how she does feel (miserable) but rather to how she should feel (happy). She is alienated by his sympa"
"If you happily deviate from an expectation, your joy becomes a theft of theirs."
"When we give an account of something as sexist or racist, we are often dismissed as having a faulty perception, as not receiving the intentions or actions of others fairly or properly. “I didn’t mean anything by it,” he might say. And indeed then by taking something said or done the wrong way, not o"
"To be engaged in the creation of a world for women is to transform what it means to be women. Let me explain what I mean by this by going back to the words. The history of the word woman teaches us how the categories that secure personhood are bound up with a history of ownership: woman is derived f"
"Feminism is a killjoy survival kit. We could think of this feminist survival kit as a form of feminist self-care."
Chapter Being in Question is brilliant. 從膚色種族到性向,引起非常多的共鳴 - ’to be asked “where are you from?” Is a way of being told you are not from here.’ 這大概就是改革開放留給我們這一代人的不定根與兩面性。