Sara Ahmed

A profound guide to existing on your own terms, the first trade book from renowned intersectional feminist scholar Sara Ahmed. We have to keep saying it because they keep doing it. Do colleagues roll their eyes in a meeting when you use words like sexism or racism? Do you refuse to laugh at jokes that aren't funny? Have you been...

A moving exploration of the solace and power of listening in an unjust world, from the author of The Feminist Killjoy Handbook ‘Behind many disasters are unheard complaints’ To complain is an intimate, dangerous act. Whether it’s speaking up about racism in the workplace or taking a stand against sexual harassment at university, the act of complaining to an institution...

Emotions work to define who we are as well as shape what we do, and this is no more powerfully at play than in the world of politics. Ahmed considers how emotions keep us invested in relationships of power and also shows how this use of emotion could be crucial to areas such as feminist and queer politics. Debates on...