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Living a Feminist Life
Sara Ahmed (2017)
What makes a "feminist life'?
"Feminism is wherever feminism needs to be. Feminism needs to be everywhere. Feminism needs to be everywhere because feminisms is not everywhere" (4).
what tools do we need to build a "feminist world"?
"to become a feminist is to stay a student" educational materials like hooks and Anzaldua (11) -- it's a practice and a praxis; you have to keep consuming these materials; embracing the
"Feminism is at stake in how we generate knowledge; in how we write, in who we cite" (14). "Citation is feminist memory" (15).
"I do not cite any white men" (15)--it reproduces the white, male hegemony of the institutional/academic space
Feminist Consciousness (27): "to recognize a wrong is to realize that you are not in the wrong" (27):
How do we sustain ourselves and our feminist tendencies?
How do we become feminists?
"Feminism begins with intensity: you are aroused by what you come up against" (22). Why move feminism back towards the body?
What are reactions to "feminism"?
freaked out?
still skeptical, but
the misrepresentations of feminism
talking to moms -- intrigued by the recaps; "oh that's that thing that I see"
younger sisters
What is "feminism" for Ahmed?
Miranda argues tears it down so that she can rebuild into the true nature of the word "claiming the word as your own"
"Feminism: how we pick each other up" (1)
"Feminism: the dynamism of making connections" p 3 --
Ahmed is saying "Feminism is bringing people into the room" pg. 3 (inclusivity)
brings into perspective how inclusive it can be, and not how its usually portrayed, anti-male.
People have certain orientations towards the concept and she uses her intro to broaden the idea of what feminism entails? (Na'Lajah)
following bell hooks, an end to sexual exploitation as informed by racism, colonial states, capitalist exploitation (pg 5)
Feminist Killjoy Survival Kit (240-9)
questions of bilingualism/multilingualism -- language
Books (240)
For Ahmed, Audre Lorde, bell hooks, Judith Butler
bell hooks
Feminism is for Everybody
(it's so useable)
The bridge Called My Back
captures feelings of intersectional women writing and naming structures they face
Amanda Lovelace
The Princess Saves herself in This One
--sharing experience is powerful; models recovery;
The Mermaid Finds her Voice In This One
Gloria Anzaldua
Borderlands / La Frontera
Things
Butt-erflies poster
tarot cards
screaming shells
Taylor Swift's discography
B Miller; Jessie Reyes; Rina Sawayama
Tools
music and vibes
digital access and virtual space/feminist tech
curriculum!
legal structures
Time (p 242)
time to research and sit with information
time to allocate to activities
time away from others
Life (243)
Permission Notes
Other Killjoys
Humor
Feelings (246)
Bodies (247)