Feminist Killjoy
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Writer and independent feminist scholar Queer person of colour
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The Hopefulness of Complaint
A lecture delivered for the Transform Theory, Policy, and Practice: Decolonise Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) in Higher Education (HE) conference, Westminster University on February 6, 2026.*
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Lee Hurley
2 days ago
UK ban on Palestine Action unlawful, high court judges rule
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UK ban on Palestine Action unlawful, high court judges rule
Protest group’s co-founder wins legal challenge against decision to proscribe it under anti-terrorism laws
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/feb/13/uk-ban-palestine-action-unlawful-high-court-judges-rule
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K R
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this is how things seem to work in so many jobs/businesses I recommend reading
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and
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if you need help coping with it in your realm
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Ken Wissoker
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I'm thrilled to be presenting
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in conversation about their new books at
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with Audra Simpson!! Monday, Feb 23 at 6:30pm EST via Zoom webinar.
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@dukepress.bsky.social
register:
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ProfKFH
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At Barnard College, dozens of faculty_circulated an open letter calling on the college to investigate & publicly address trustees’ past connections to Epstein,& urging the removal of Francine A. LeFrak’s name from campus buildings as well as her resignation from the board.
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https://archive.ph/2026.02.11-011151/https://www.chronicle.com/article/a-moment-of-reckoning-after-epstein-higher-ed-faces-hard-questions-about-its-proximity-to-power
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Ethel Baraona Pohl
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«We need to name a problem in order to address it. But naming problems does not make them go away. And yet, naming matters. Complaining about problems does not make them go away, either. And yet complaining matters.»
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Study of Religion as an Analytical Discipline Workshop
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"Ahmed’s
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conceptualising of knowledge, or more accurately, knowingness indicates that @ its core are 2 aspects: agency and authority Whilst the subaltern often has the agency to speak, or be recognised, they lack or are denied the authority to be seen or heard (Spivak 1988)"
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Citizen.Coping
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"When what you experience is part of the culture, you don’t identify it at the time you experience it… Clarity can be jarring because to see it is not only to see what you didn't see before. It's to see yourself not seeing it. The longer you take to see it, the harder it is to see it." - Sara Ahmed
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The Hopefulness of Complaint
A lecture delivered for the Transform Theory, Policy, and Practice: Decolonise Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) in Higher Education (HE) conference, Westminster University on February 6, 2026.*
https://open.substack.com/pub/feministkilljoys/p/the-hopefulness-of-complaint?r=26v21r&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay
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Ideas on Fire
12 days ago
It’s publication day for Ideas on Fire author Beans Velocci! Their new book Sex Isn't Real: The Invention of an Incoherent Binary is out now from
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dukeupress.edu/sex-isnt-real
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Haymarket Books
16 days ago
In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and ICE occupation, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about migrant justice and border abolition.
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Free Ebooks: Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border
In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and ICE occupation, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about migrant justice an...
https://www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/525-free-ebooks-abolish-ice-abolish-the-border
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Alasdair Pettinger
about 2 months ago
'In the UK, polishing is a national past-time. Shiny surfaces. Gloss. Gloss.' A killjoy new year message from
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An Empire of Closets
A killjoy new year message
https://feministkilljoys.substack.com/p/an-empire-of-closets?publication_id=2289424
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No cheer for no cheer. Keep planting your rebellion!
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An Empire of Closets
A killjoy new year message
https://open.substack.com/pub/feministkilljoys/p/an-empire-of-closets?r=26v21r&utm_medium=ios
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Durba Mitra
about 2 months ago
My book, The Future That Was: A History of Third World Feminism Against Authoritarianism, will be out March 17, 2026 It is now available for pre-order from
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and other online booksellers!
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I could write so many more letters.
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Sara Ahmed (@feministkilljoys)
Dear mainsteam British media, What a pity you blanked No is Not a Lonely Utterance! You might have found some useful tools to help explain not just how but why people protect serial abusers. ...
https://substack.com/@feministkilljoys/note/c-189841081?r=26v21r&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
about 2 months ago
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮
about 2 months ago
A new book from one of the most transformative scholars I ever read? Hell yes.
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making art
about 2 months ago
"I share examples of complaints that are performed in meetings or on stage, made into songs, turned into postcards, posters and prayers, pasted on placards and marched onto the streets. To get our complaints out of institutions, we might have to be sneaky as well as leaky. How perfectly queer."
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Queer ears for my queer peers! Thanks to
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for sharing some of my opinions!
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OPINION: It is vital that LGBTQIA+ people master the art of complaining
Sara Ahmed urges us to free ourselves from institutional closets
https://diva-magazine.com/2025/12/18/it-is-vital-that-lgbtqia-people-master-the-art-of-complaining/
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Sara Ahmed (@feministkilljoys)
My last event for the year is today! It is an online conversation with Our Streets Now. Sorry, it is not free. But this does mean it will be a smaller group and I will be able to chat more informally ...
https://substack.com/@feministkilljoys/note/c-189127915?r=26v21r&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
about 2 months ago
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Ken Wissoker
3 months ago
Coming up next Monday, December 8 at 6:30 eastern via Zoom webinar. Right on time! Registration details linked below!
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That is such a feminist hope: to help many people be freer 💜
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3 months ago
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Cynthia Khoo
3 months ago
This is a horror story passed off as child's fable, from Grimm bro.s to colonial violence in residential schools, to universities' use of misogyny, racism & ableism against survivors & those protesting genocide. Chillingly unravelled by
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No! The Art and Activism of Complaining is being published by Feminist Press on April 7, 2026! We fill those speech bubbles: pop, snap, sizzle, shriek, scream, clatter, splatter!
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No!
An assembly of refusals portraying the radical power of “no” by the renowned scholar and author of The Feminist Killjoy Handbook, Sara Ahmed.To be heard as complaining is not to be heard, writes Sara ...
https://feministpress.org/collections/coming-soon/products/9781558613683-no
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I wrote this post Cancellers on my newsletter last week before reading about Clanchy et al. Sigh. Solidarity to all those positioned as cancellers, esp. women of colour.
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Sara Ahmed (@feministkilljoys)
I wrote my last piece, The Cancellers (https://substack.com/home/post/p-177974335), before I realised that teacher and author Kate Clanchy had published yet another “I’ve been cancelled,” story that h...
https://substack.com/profile/132459039-sara-ahmed/note/c-176055884?r=26v21r&utm_source=notes-share-action&utm_medium=web
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Transgender World
3 months ago
"A Stunning Rebuke Of Anti-Trans Politics"—Dems Win Elections Nationwide Despite Anti-Trans Ads
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"A Stunning Rebuke Of Anti-Trans Politics"—Dems Win Elections Nationwide Despite Anti-Trans Ads
As election results poured in on Tuesday night, it became clear that Democrats were winning nationwide against anti-trans opponents.
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/a-stunning-rebuke-of-anti-trans-politicsdems
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Can’t wait to listen 💜
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The Complaint Apparatus
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The Complaint Apparatus
Some thoughts on the co-option of complaints
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Sadiah Qureshi 🦈
4 months ago
A huge thank you to
@saranahmed.bsky.social
for your book tour and kindly signing my book. Oh my word! If you can go, do. Sara’s such a wonderful writer and speaker, and it always feels like the audience cherishes her words and, of course, her. Details of the book and tour here.
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Queer joy! Killjoy joy! Glitter & rage on every page! Thanks Sen for such a sparkly conversation ✨✨🪩🪩
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Natacha
4 months ago
Almost 60,000 women have signed this petition by
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women to say that the transphobes do not speak for them. Meanwhile the Daily Express front-pages seven transphobes, falsely claiming that they “represent women”. If they do not represent you. Please sign.
notinourname.org.uk
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I think this might be the first time I’ve ever done a public event in Sheffield! Calling all killjoys! Tonight with Erin Maglaque & hosted by Juno Books.
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Senthorun S. Raj
4 months ago
“One common strategy of mainstream political parties — adopting the same topics and rhetoric as the far-right — often backfires. Instead of reducing their appeal, it can amplify extremist narratives and legitimise their agenda.” We cannot defeat fascism by platforming it and debating on its terms.
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Mainstream loses control of agenda by mimicking far-right, study finds
During the 2024 European Parliament election campaign, centrist politicians warned about the threat posed by far-right parties to democracies. Yet experts suggest the political mainstream itself is pa...
https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/arffb2b2c8
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Durba Mitra
4 months ago
so much more discourse about the compliance of Columbia, but the “agreements” of Penn & Brown set a dangerous precedent w relatively little push back, despite the fact that they ended free inquiry by legally mandating binary gender as an intellectual and spatial paradigm for university compliance
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Emily Mann
4 months ago
@saranahmed.bsky.social
also radicalised me!⚠️ Living a feminist life helped me navigate everyday backlash back when I first started learning about feminism, activism & research. Sara's work continues to be as transformative & energising!
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Bradford District Green Party
4 months ago
Don't threaten us with a good time, Daily Express.
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Prof Sunny Singh
4 months ago
We mourn. We rest. We renew our strength and commitment. Then we turn up again and again and again. Until liberation and accountability. We won’t forget. We won’t forgive. We can’t. For all our sakes!
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Holly Bird
4 months ago
Loved listening to
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speak so movingly and poetically about some of the ideas behind her new book this evening at
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Somewhere Else to Go
Or why I’m still speaking about complaining
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4 months ago
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Looking forward to sharing the work at Gutter bookshop in Dublin! Tomorrow!
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Senthorun S. Raj
4 months ago
“To assemble, to say no, to do no, throws so much open … doing what we can, when we can, however we can, in the wear and tear, for as long as it takes.” Just read
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’s energising new book on complaining as a collective task of feminist and queer world (un)building. Get a copy!
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Such brilliant news! So many congratulations!
@mckenziewark.bsky.social
@susanstryker.bsky.social
@dukepress.bsky.social
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Zarah Sultana MP
4 months ago
People from all walks of life — including many British Jews — are protesting against your government’s complicity in genocide and standing in solidarity with Palestine. Conflating Israel’s genocide in Gaza with British Jews is deeply inappropriate and dangerous. Shame on you.
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Florence Ashley
5 months ago
"Why would it bow to antidemocratic pressures by placing a professor on leave without their request, consent, or involvement? That any university would do this is beyond comprehension and is cause for alarm about the future of academic freedom in Canada."
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What Happened to the University’s Commitment to Free Expression? Charley Kirk, uAlberta, and Me | Centre for Free Expression
I was shocked when the University of Alberta administration informed me, one of its law professors, that I was being placed on non-disciplinary leave for my social media comments in the wake of Charli...
https://cfe.torontomu.ca/blog/2025/09/what-happened-universitys-commitment-free-expression-charley-kirk-ualberta-and-me
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Jolyon Maugham KC
5 months ago
"Most violence happens in the home, not on the streets. [We had] a strategy to address it around four pillars: prevention, engagement, the victim’s journey, and rehabilitation. That serious, practical work has now been pushed aside in favour of fearmongering and scapegoating."
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In Kent, Reform’s talk of protecting women is a dangerous illusion | Good Law Project
Dodgy stats and questionable allies. It’s time to push back against Reform’s dangerous agenda on women’s safety, says Sara Fox.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb
5 months ago
At Cornell, the Dean broke policy and ignored the disciplinary committee's findings that there wasn't evidence of discrimination, and forwarded the complaint to the Provost anyway. The Provost then opened an investigation.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb
5 months ago
Cornell is cancelling a distinguished professor's classes on Gaza and suspending him because of the complaints of a student who previously served in Israel's military surveillance agency and was literally recording the comments of other students in class and deliberately derailing discussion.
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Caroline Litman
5 months ago
The Quakers issued this reply to a GC attack on their trans inclusion policy. It’s incredible in its care and certainty. Its examples of transphobia are spot on. And >98% of Quakers surveyed agree with the policy. Anyone implementing trans inclusion policies should take note. This is how to do it.
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Marceline
5 months ago
my new video, "The Fascism of Happiness", is live now on Youtube!! Featuring the incredible philosophy of
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💗 Link:
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