Killing Joy as A Queer Project
Thursday 21 Mar 2024 from 7pm to 8:30pm
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Sara Ahmed presents two of her books, 'Feminist Killjoy Handbook' and 'Queer Vandalism', with her co-translators Emma Bigé and Mabeuko Oberty.
She talks feminism, compulsory happiness, and collective forms of resistance.
Sara Ahmed defines herself as a "feminist killjoy". Her philosophical thinking combines ideas drawn from queer studies, feminist theory, critical race theory, Marxism and psychoanalysis.
This talk is an opportunity to look back at her work and the killjoy solidarities she teaches us to weave.
She says it’s “what I do, it is how I think, it is my philosophical and political work”. Her philosophical thinking combines ideas drawn from queer studies, feminist theory, critical race theory, Marxism and psychoanalysis. In Spring 2024, three of her books will simultaneously be published in French: Vandalisme queer (Burn∼Août), Vivre une vie féministe (Hors d’atteinte) and Manuel rabat-joie féministe (La Découverte).
In the course of a cross-disciplinary career that has included studies in medicine, language sciences and socio-anthropology, as well as teaching in schools and health care centres, Mabeuko discovered Body Weather, a practice developed in Japan to which they have devoted themselves for the last ten years.