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The Feminist Killjoy Handbook

The Radical Potential of Getting in the Way

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The Feminist Killjoy Handbook

By: Sara Ahmed
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A renowned feminist thinker argues we need to get in the way of happiness, our own and other people’s, to build a more just world

Do you refuse to laugh at offensive jokes? Have you ever been accused of ruining dinner by pointing out your companion’s sexist comment? Are you often told to stop being so “woke”? If so, you might be a feminist killjoy—and this handbook is for you. In this book, feminist theorist Sara Ahmed shows how killing joy can be a radical world-making project.

Presenting sharp analysis of literature, film, and influential feminist works, and drawing on her own experiences as a queer feminist scholar-activist of color, Ahmed reveals the invaluable lessons of the feminist killjoy, from the importance of asking questions to the power of the eye roll. The Feminist Killjoy Handbook offers an outstretched hand to feminist killjoys everywhere and an essential intellectual guide to the transformative power of getting in the way.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2023 Sara Ahmed (P)2023 Seal Press
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“Odd and exciting to let out a shout as one reads a book of theory, theory written for and about the ordinary outrages that demand a feminist response. This book releases a sound that emerges from the full diaphragm, a life force held in check for too long. Ahmed moves from scene to scene with clarity, rage, and joy, building through each refrain to mark the brutal violence of everyday encounters and to show us what a life-affirming response can be. Ahmed thinks in the middle of rage, never letting go of the possibility of joyful resistance, writing, turning over what she just wrote, showing how ‘obstinacy’ is one form for the desire to survive. And yet, throughout, the humility of this brilliant feminist thinker shines through. This book is a great gift, enormously important for overcoming this vicious trans/feminist divide, showing how anti-racism and the struggle for disability rights is central to feminist and queer thinking and politics.”

Judith Butler, author of Gender Trouble

The iconic feminist Killjoy Sara Ahmed rides her horse, stands her ground, speaks her truth in this mighty little book. Her powerful words blaze a trail of tough love honed-in the saddle of real life. Armed with the gift of her wisdom, a new generation of Black and brown Killjoys will have the weapons to outwit the tyranny of white supremacist heteropatriarchy—subverting its machinations to define our minds and bodies with our collective Killjoy voice.”

Heidi Safia Mirza, University College, London

“Yes. This book should be in your hands, because it changes what we can do with our hands. Outstretched in collaboration, extended as a fence, raised in fists of protest, intertwined with visionary grace. Maybe you will even write on your hand to remember: after reading this book we have new possibilities for what our hands can mean.”

Alexis Pauline Gumbs, author of Undrowned

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Killing joy for a better tomorrow

I, like countless other readers, felt myself though Sara’s words. The Killjoy Maximus will be at the ready to read as affirmations and assurances that I’m not the problem the problems are the problem. Beautifully written and structured. A*

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I REALLY wanted to like this book, but I just didn’t.

The topic of this book is extremely important to me and the author made some good points but overall the book was not good. I did not appreciate the author style. I just felt the material was disconnected and all over the place. The author seemed like she was trying to be poetic and philosophical, at the same time but missed the mark. The prose was off and the cadence of the book was repetitive. It was just words, and definitions, and words repeated. Which in turn made it way too long - the editors should have cut at least a third of the material out.

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