Sara Ahmed Quotes

#1. Pain involves the violation or transgression of the border between inside and outside, and it is through this transgression that I feel the border in the first place

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#2. Every writer is first a reader, and what we read matters.

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#3. When you expose a problem you pose a problem. It might then be assumed that the problem would go away if you would just stop talking about or if you went away.

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#4. Let's take the figure of the feminist killjoy seriously. One feminist project could be to give the killjoy back her voice. Whilst hearing feminists as killjoys might be a form of dismissal, there is an agency that this dismissal rather ironically reveals. We can respond to the accusation with a yes.

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#5. Those of us committed to a queer life know that forms of recognition are either precariously conditional, you have to be the right kind of queer by depositing your hope for happiness in the right places (even with perverse desire you can have straight aspirations), or it is simply not given.

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#6. Where we find happiness teaches us what we value rather than simply what is of value.

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