#feministkilljoys

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It’s a strange time right now, so we’ve decided to start sharing some nice things from Kill Joy. Feel Good. to make this time somewhat less frightening. Here’s a zine that Ailsa Liu made at the event last December! To see more by Ailsa, follow her here and here.

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"It is hard labor to recognize sadness and disappointment when you are living a life that is meant to be happy but is not happy, which is meant to be full but feels empty."

- Sara Ahmed, Living a Feminist Life

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[Vivere una vita femminista][Sara Ahmed]

"Vivere una vita femminista" di Sara Ahmed è una riflessione teorica che si fa prassi: il libro mette a disposizione un manifesto e un kit di sopravvivenza per killjoy femministe, una sopravvivenza intesa come un progetto collettivo per mantenere in vita

Vivere una vita femminista in un mondo non femminista può essere faticoso, perché faticoso è lottare contro la violenza di un sistema che ci promette la felicità solo a patto di adeguarci ai suoi meccanismi.Intrecciando la sua narrazione con quella di altre femministe nere e of color prima di lei, Sara Ahmed ci offre una riflessione personale e politica sull’esperienza quotidiana di una vita…

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Step One: Identify The Problem

Step Two: Become the Problem

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Sara Ahmed writes:

I am of course describing this feminist killjoy tendency in my own terms here. But so many of my feminist killjoy experiences within the academy relate to the politics of citation: I would describe citation as a rather successful reproductive technology, a way of reproducing the world around certain bodies.

These citational structures can form what we call disciplines. I was once asked to contribute to a sociology course, for example, and found that all the core readings were by male writers. I pointed this out and the course convener implied that “that” was simply a reflection of the history of the discipline. Well: this is a very selective history! The reproduction of a discipline can be the reproduction of these techniques of selection, ways of making certain bodies and thematics core to the discipline, and others not even part.

 I have noticed as well that these citational practices can occur even when the topic is one that feminists have written extensively about.  I recently attended a conference in which there was a panel on reproductive justice, a topic that feminists have written rather extensively about, and two of the three papers were entirely framed around the work of male philosophers! Or take the case of scholarship on the body. Feminists have been writing about the body (and critiquing mind-body dualisms) for well over a century. But how often have I heard utterances in which such-and-such male theorist is identified as the origin of the turn to the body! 

Indeed men can even cite only men when critiquing male privilege, as we can see here:http://www.leninology.com/2013/02/on-male-privilege.html