Feminist Killjoy
@saranahmed.bsky.social
Writer and independent feminist scholar Queer person of colour #FreePalestine
Join me and Janine Francois to talk about complaint activism & more on September 17th? It’s to mark the paperback launch of No is not a Lonely Utterance in collaboration with Pages of Hackney. Last event in London for this year.
No is Not a Lonely Utterance in paperback
Dear friends and killjoys,
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I would really like to include this image from a trans rights protest in my book, Common Sense and Its Others, with an eye on the placard "Your Common Sense Isn't Our Common Sense," but I can find the original source to ask for permission (I've tried google image reverse search). Any ideas anyone?
Because, as everyone knows, protest works best when it's approved by the government. The entire judgement is based on a series of fairytales: about democracy, the benign nature of the state, the efficacy of polite, obedient and invisible protest and the harmonious course of English history.
If the Suffragettes were active today, there is not a shadow of a doubt that Keir Starmer's government would have banned them as a terrorist group, and insisted there are plenty of other ways in which women can register their dissent. Why don't they write letters to their MPs?
The Court of Appeal judgement on Palestine Action is frankly bonkers. It says PA is not "a direct action civil disobedience protest group like the suffragettes operating transparently in the open." Right: the arson, bombings, slashings etc were all planned in open meetings in Parliament Square 🙄🧵
Every crime in which an ethnic or cultural minority is the perpetrator used to justify repression or worse of minorities. Every crime in which a minority is the victim used to argue for the idea that ethnic diversity is inherently unstable and should be reduced or eradicated.
Owen Winter@owenwntr.bsky.social · 2mo agoIn his white lives matter address, Nigel Farage calls George Floyd a career criminal and says "the rights and privileges of white people matter less than those of ethnic minorities" in Britain
“Who else becomes an also? The barely mentioned? After thoughts? To become a stranger, sometimes, is to remain in the shadows, at the edges of social experience, not registered as living and breathing. Until.” So relatable and heartbreaking 💔
Feminist Killjoy@saranahmed.bsky.social · 3mo ago
Wow, I can't believe Labour's tactic of yelling "DON'T VOTE FOR THESE GREEN CUNTS, THEY'RE DANGEROUS, VOTE FOR US, WE HATE IMMIGRANTS IN A BETTER WAY THAN REFORM!" hasn't led to them keeping all their council seats.
I’m joining the campaign to Defend Our Juries - Take action here: www.defendourjuries.net
Home - Defend Our Juries
Jurors have an absolute right to acquit a defendant according to their conscience Juries put the moral intuition of ordinary people into the heart of the criminal justice system. Over the last few yea...
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It's a year today since the Supreme Court decision on the meaning of "sex" under the Equality Act 2010. Jolyon Maugham and I have written a reflective piece with our thoughts on the judgment, everything that has happened since, and why it's so important that we are still fighting - together 👇
A year under attack – and a year fighting back
Jess O’Thomson and Jolyon Maugham reflect on what has happened in the year since the Supreme Court’s judgment, and how the trans community has courageously fought back
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You can give me just one of those millions, I promise my viewpoint would bring some diversity to Harvard
The Harvard Crimson@theharvardcrimson.bsky.social · 4mo agoSCOOP: Harvard is quietly asking donors for $10 million gifts to establish endowed professorships in a bid to reshape faculty under the banner of “viewpoint diversity,” according to two people familiar. Hugo C. Chiasson and Elise A. Spenner report. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
If you are a cis woman who is opposed to being used as a pretext for establishment transphobia and trans exclusion please sign this petition by @nionwomen.bsky.social. Now fewer than 300 signatures needed to get it past 100,000! notinourname.org.uk
Home - Not in our name
Not In our Name: Women in support of the trans+community
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When it comes to sexual assault, asylum, domestic violence, the structural reality is that people (especially migrant women) are faced with great suspicion, scrutiny, and stigma for making such claims. Any reporting that obscures this reality only further institutionalises racist, sexist inequality.
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Feminist Killjoy@saranahmed.bsky.social · 4mo agoFeminist Killjoy cake!
Watch author Sara Ahmed discuss "No!: The Art and Activism of Complaining" at Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C. Ahmed is in conversation with Soraya Chemaly, an award-winning writer and activist whose work focuses on the role of gender in culture, politics, religion, and media.
Author Talk: Sara Ahmed — No!: The Art and Activism of Complaining - with Soraya Chemaly
YouTube video by Politics and Prose
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Feminist Killjoy@saranahmed.bsky.social · 4mo agoToday in Washington DC! With the ever inspiring Soraya Chemaly! ! politics-prose.com/sara-ahmed-0...
On May 2nd, I'm hosting a one-day writing conference for memoirists at Rutgers! Our keynote speaker is Kimberlé Crenshaw and other guests include Alexander Chee, Mira Jacob, Lauren Hough, Kelly Sundberg, Savala Nolan and Mary HK Choi. I hope you can make it! ce-catalog.rutgers.edu/coursedispla...
Writing a Life - Rutgers University Division of Continuing Studies
Join Dr. Roxane Gay for a full-day conference about memoir.
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Last event on mini book tour today! A community discussion: a chance to sit with each other and the work 💜
Thinking back. So many no tales. And trails. In my 2017 post No! all no’s were in bold. feministkilljoys.com/2017/06/30/no/
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Today in Washington DC! With the ever inspiring Soraya Chemaly! ! politics-prose.com/sara-ahmed-0...
Sara Ahmed — No!: The Art and Activism of Complaining - with Soraya Chemaly — at Conn Ave
An assembly of refusals portraying the radical power of "no" by the renowned scholar and author of The Feminist Killjoy Handbook, Sara Ahmed.
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We’re proud to include voices like @natashadevon.bsky.social MBE - journalist, campaigner, and long-time advocate for women and young people - in our growing movement of women speaking out in support of the trans+ community
As @saranahmed.bsky.social has written: An abuser does not just have a network. An abuser is a network. www.thetimes.com/uk/education...
World-leading classicist gave female student unwanted ‘slobbery kiss’
An investigation into Simon Goldhill, 69, a professor of Greek at King’s College, Cambridge University, upheld complaints of professional and sexual misconduct
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Philly today! Saying no, in a killjoy way. With Heather Love 💜 publictrust.org/on-complaint...
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“It comes down to this: The press, because of its own conventions and time-honored practices, normalizes him, and thus fails to get across the extreme nature of this president’s behavior. Ten years of sane-washing have had their effect. He remains in power, reelected, undeterred.”
How the media must cover this madman president
My three suggestions—with illustrations—since 'sane-washing' is far too mild a term
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