Sara Ahmed Quotes on Politics
Sara Ahmed is a British-Australian feminist philosopher and independent scholar, formerly professor at Goldsmiths, University of London, whose work has shaped contemporary feminist phenomenology, queer theory, and the sociology of institutions. This page collects quotes attributed to Sara Ahmed on the topic of politics, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
-
Attributed to Sara Ahmed:
“When you expose a problem, you pose a problem.”
-
Attributed to Sara Ahmed:
“Citation is a feminist memory.”
-
Attributed to Sara Ahmed:
“Sometimes a feminist killjoy is what a happy table needs.”
-
Attributed to Sara Ahmed:
“Privilege is an energy-saving device; it conserves the will of those who already get to choose.”
-
Attributed to Sara Ahmed:
“To live a feminist life is to make the world feminism makes possible.”
-
“The Cultural Politics of Emotion (2004), p. 189”
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.