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Ahmed - Living a Feminist Life / Feminist Killjoys
How does one learn feminism?
Do
feminism?
with close friends, these conversations feel safer
with folks we don't have the same trust/intimacy with, it's like "oh no"
what happens when conversations with family and loved ones "don't go that well"; opens you up to ridicule and bad vibes
a casual redirect and getting "off the point"
"it's cause your a college girl now" (also, my dude, you were in high school in the 80s; undermine knowledge base and knowledge production); uh oh, brain wash
looong histories of "don't ask don't tell" and ideas of silence and what's professional/appropriate
What's in your killjoy survival kit? If the CONSTANT noticing and calling out of racism and sexism is EXHAUSTING work, how do we sustain ourselves?
books
Laurence Sterne's
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy
; Kushner's
Angels in America
; everything Ahmed, Butler, Halberstam, and Berlant
Alice Walker "in search of our mother's gardens"; Lorde's
Zami
; Woolf
A Room of One's Own
Cryptid Fashion (zine culture babyyyyy); poetry
Letters to a Young brown girl
;
things
my dice bag; running shoes (celebrating empowered female athletes!); video games (
Horizon Zero Dawn and Forbidden West
)*; disposable cameras and film as film
tools
camp; wit;
vintage journaling, paint, creative tools; questions: "what was that? what did you mean by that? sorry, could you repeat that?"
time
recognizing time and memories; seeing time and mortality;
do you reply and answer bad posts and call out posts on the internet; choices NOT to engage; recording and storing receipts; building a timeline!
life
permission notes
humor
other killjoys
Killjoy survival kit: "protest can be a form of self care as well a care for others" (240); we want change. it's how we find community
"Feminist consciousness": "to recognize a wrong is to realize that you are not in the wrong" (27). yooo, a redirection of thought process; you realize it's on the person and the situation, not you.
hey, the world is not feminist; and turning off is a "survival" tactic; this seems to be about Lorde and hooks' ideal of "in denial"
we can press against "universisal" and red flag
"When we give problems
Feminism is "homework": we do the reading
feminism is "sensational"--paying attention to how you feel or how you are made to feel; when something injust happens, we have a FEELINg
feminism is survival--ways to survive and UNDERSTAND
how might this be coping skills and ways of therapy/coping? Oppression doesn't have a "cure"