Sara Ahmed Quotes

born 1969 Australia

Sara Ahmed (30 August 1969) is a British-Australian scholar whose area of study includes the intersection of feminist theory, lesbian feminism, queer theory, critical race theory and postcolonialism.

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To point out harassment is to be viewed as the harasser; to point out oppression is to be viewed as oppressive.

An Affinity of Hammers (2016)

The exposure of violence is perceived by the privileged as the origin of violence.

An Affinity of Hammers (2016)

Gender norms so often remain predicated on an unremarkable whiteness.

Jokiness allows a constant trivializing: as if by joking someone is suspending judgment on what is being said. She didn’t mean anything by it; lighten up. A killjoy knows from experience: when people keep making light of something, something heavy is going on

An Affinity of Hammers (2016)

Solidarity does not assume that our struggles are the same struggles, or that our pain is the same pain, or that our hope is for the same future. Solidarity involves commitment, and work, as well as the recognition that even if we do not have the same feelings, or the same lives, or the same bodies, we do live on common ground.

The Cultural Politics of Emotion (2004)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Sara Ahmed (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.