Sara AhmedThinkers

Citation serves as a way to acknowledge our debt to those who came before... those who helped us find our way when the way was obscured because we deviated from the paths we were told to follow.

A Companion text is a text whose company, and whose ability to spark a moment of revelation or ability to share a feeling, enables a reader to proceed on a path less trodden.

Feminism aims to bring an end to something that some do not recognize as existing.

Feminism is a fragile archive, a body assembled from shattering, from splattering, an archive whose fragility gives us responsibility: to take care.

Happiness is a form of world making (in that it participates in the creation of social form) and it is a political technology that produces social norms.

Happiness involves assumptions and values which unfortunately bring our attention away from the unhappiness of others.

Intersectionality is the notion that how we inhabit a given category depends on how we inhabit others

Racism is a matter of making the world 'ready' for certain kinds of bodies. It concerns how the world has historically put certain objects within the reach of some bodies. Bodies remember such histories, even when we forget them.

Second-wave feminism 1s 2otto is 'the personal is political' which is to say that feminism is to be considered to happen in the very places that have historically been bracketed as not political: in domestic arrangements, at home.

A Sweaty concept is a way of describing something that is difficult, that resists being fully comprehended in the present... it involves treating descriptive work as conceptual work and describing the difficulty in describing as part and parcel of the description of it..

Tolerance is a hegemonic illusion. What is needed is a 'critical' tolerance which examines how differences are organized unequally along normative indices.