Feminist Killjoy
@saranahmed.bsky.social
Writer and independent feminist scholar
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#FreePalestine
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#FreePalestine
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I wrote this post Cancellers on my newsletter last week before reading about Clanchy et al. Sigh. Solidarity to all those positioned as cancellers, esp. women of colour. substack.com/profile/1324...
Sara Ahmed (@feministkilljoys)
I wrote my last piece, The Cancellers (https://substack.com/home/post/p-177974335), before I realised that teacher and author Kate Clanchy had published yet another “I’ve been cancelled,” story that h...
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November 11, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I wrote this post Cancellers on my newsletter last week before reading about Clanchy et al. Sigh. Solidarity to all those positioned as cancellers, esp. women of colour. substack.com/profile/1324...
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"A Stunning Rebuke Of Anti-Trans Politics"—Dems Win Elections Nationwide Despite Anti-Trans Ads
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#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
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#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
"A Stunning Rebuke Of Anti-Trans Politics"—Dems Win Elections Nationwide Despite Anti-Trans Ads
As election results poured in on Tuesday night, it became clear that Democrats were winning nationwide against anti-trans opponents.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:40 PM
"A Stunning Rebuke Of Anti-Trans Politics"—Dems Win Elections Nationwide Despite Anti-Trans Ads
www.erininthemorning...
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
www.erininthemorning...
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
Can’t wait to listen 💜
Now listening to the 4th Annual Alchemy Lecture:
Sound—at the Interregnum.
First alchemist is Glen Coulthard, Yellowknives Dene, Prof. First Nations and Indigenous Studies and Political Science
listening: noisescapes of mining, air traffic and urban expansion on Yellowknife land
#YUAlchemy
Sound—at the Interregnum.
First alchemist is Glen Coulthard, Yellowknives Dene, Prof. First Nations and Indigenous Studies and Political Science
listening: noisescapes of mining, air traffic and urban expansion on Yellowknife land
#YUAlchemy
The 2025 Alchemy Lecture: Sound—at the Interregnum
YouTube video by York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
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October 31, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Can’t wait to listen 💜
The Complaint Apparatus open.substack.com/pub/feminist...
The Complaint Apparatus
Some thoughts on the co-option of complaints
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October 29, 2025 at 4:02 PM
The Complaint Apparatus open.substack.com/pub/feminist...
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A huge thank you to @saranahmed.bsky.social for your book tour and kindly signing my book.
Oh my word! If you can go, do. Sara’s such a wonderful writer and speaker, and it always feels like the audience cherishes her words and, of course, her.
Details of the book and tour here.
Oh my word! If you can go, do. Sara’s such a wonderful writer and speaker, and it always feels like the audience cherishes her words and, of course, her.
Details of the book and tour here.
Beginning to plan a book tour for No is Not a Lonely Utterance (UK/Ire). It means so much to share this work about our shared work! Let me know if there is somewhere I should go. The email for the book is the same as for the research [email protected] www.penguin.co.uk/books/470363...
No Is Not a Lonely Utterance
‘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 univers...
www.penguin.co.uk
October 23, 2025 at 8:20 PM
A huge thank you to @saranahmed.bsky.social for your book tour and kindly signing my book.
Oh my word! If you can go, do. Sara’s such a wonderful writer and speaker, and it always feels like the audience cherishes her words and, of course, her.
Details of the book and tour here.
Oh my word! If you can go, do. Sara’s such a wonderful writer and speaker, and it always feels like the audience cherishes her words and, of course, her.
Details of the book and tour here.
Queer joy! Killjoy joy! Glitter & rage on every page! Thanks Sen for such a sparkly conversation ✨✨🪩🪩
I had the queer joy of sparkling with @saranahmed.bsky.social, as we discussed her new book, No Is Not A Lonely Utterance. We explored complaint as a way of cultivating feminist listening, queer world building, and institutional disruption. We reverberate with collective refusals to injustice.
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October 23, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Queer joy! Killjoy joy! Glitter & rage on every page! Thanks Sen for such a sparkly conversation ✨✨🪩🪩
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Almost 60,000 women have signed this petition by @nionwomen.bsky.social women to say that the transphobes do not speak for them. Meanwhile the Daily Express front-pages seven transphobes, falsely claiming that they “represent women”. If they do not represent you. Please sign.
notinourname.org.uk
notinourname.org.uk
October 21, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Almost 60,000 women have signed this petition by @nionwomen.bsky.social women to say that the transphobes do not speak for them. Meanwhile the Daily Express front-pages seven transphobes, falsely claiming that they “represent women”. If they do not represent you. Please sign.
notinourname.org.uk
notinourname.org.uk
I think this might be the first time I’ve ever done a public event in Sheffield! Calling all killjoys! Tonight with Erin Maglaque & hosted by Juno Books. www.outsavvy.com/event/29875/...
October 21, 2025 at 1:22 PM
I think this might be the first time I’ve ever done a public event in Sheffield! Calling all killjoys! Tonight with Erin Maglaque & hosted by Juno Books. www.outsavvy.com/event/29875/...
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“One common strategy of mainstream political parties — adopting the same topics and rhetoric as the far-right — often backfires. Instead of reducing their appeal, it can amplify extremist narratives and legitimise their agenda.”
We cannot defeat fascism by platforming it and debating on its terms.
We cannot defeat fascism by platforming it and debating on its terms.
Mainstream loses control of agenda by mimicking far-right, study finds
During the 2024 European Parliament election campaign, centrist politicians warned about the threat posed by far-right parties to democracies. Yet experts suggest the political mainstream itself is pa...
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October 19, 2025 at 7:25 PM
“One common strategy of mainstream political parties — adopting the same topics and rhetoric as the far-right — often backfires. Instead of reducing their appeal, it can amplify extremist narratives and legitimise their agenda.”
We cannot defeat fascism by platforming it and debating on its terms.
We cannot defeat fascism by platforming it and debating on its terms.
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so much more discourse about the compliance of Columbia, but the “agreements” of Penn & Brown set a dangerous precedent w relatively little push back, despite the fact that they ended free inquiry by legally mandating binary gender as an intellectual and spatial paradigm for university compliance
“The university is under attack because gender studies is under attack, and if universities don’t stand up to this infringement on academic freedom now, it is not just gender studies that will be lost, but all free and open inquiry.”
— Laurie Essig, in a new post for AAUP’s Academe Blog
— Laurie Essig, in a new post for AAUP’s Academe Blog
October 14, 2025 at 7:02 PM
so much more discourse about the compliance of Columbia, but the “agreements” of Penn & Brown set a dangerous precedent w relatively little push back, despite the fact that they ended free inquiry by legally mandating binary gender as an intellectual and spatial paradigm for university compliance
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@saranahmed.bsky.social also radicalised me!⚠️
Living a feminist life helped me navigate everyday backlash back when I first started learning about feminism, activism & research.
Sara's work continues to be as transformative & energising!
Living a feminist life helped me navigate everyday backlash back when I first started learning about feminism, activism & research.
Sara's work continues to be as transformative & energising!
October 11, 2025 at 1:27 PM
@saranahmed.bsky.social also radicalised me!⚠️
Living a feminist life helped me navigate everyday backlash back when I first started learning about feminism, activism & research.
Sara's work continues to be as transformative & energising!
Living a feminist life helped me navigate everyday backlash back when I first started learning about feminism, activism & research.
Sara's work continues to be as transformative & energising!
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Don't threaten us with a good time, Daily Express.
October 9, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Don't threaten us with a good time, Daily Express.
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We mourn. We rest. We renew our strength and commitment. Then we turn up again and again and again. Until liberation and accountability.
We won’t forget. We won’t forgive. We can’t. For all our sakes!
#FreePalestine
We won’t forget. We won’t forgive. We can’t. For all our sakes!
#FreePalestine
October 9, 2025 at 7:48 AM
We mourn. We rest. We renew our strength and commitment. Then we turn up again and again and again. Until liberation and accountability.
We won’t forget. We won’t forgive. We can’t. For all our sakes!
#FreePalestine
We won’t forget. We won’t forgive. We can’t. For all our sakes!
#FreePalestine
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Loved listening to @saranahmed.bsky.social speak so movingly and poetically about some of the ideas behind her new book this evening at @lighthousebks.bsky.social
October 8, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Loved listening to @saranahmed.bsky.social speak so movingly and poetically about some of the ideas behind her new book this evening at @lighthousebks.bsky.social
Looking forward to sharing the work at Gutter bookshop in Dublin! Tomorrow!
Tomorrow evening, in my absolute career highlight, I’ll be responding to the launch of this book in Dublin. Join us in the gutter bookshop at 6.30!
“To assemble, to say no, to do no, throws so much open … doing what we can, when we can, however we can, in the wear and tear, for as long as it takes.”
Just read @saranahmed.bsky.social’s energising new book on complaining as a collective task of feminist and queer world (un)building. Get a copy!
Just read @saranahmed.bsky.social’s energising new book on complaining as a collective task of feminist and queer world (un)building. Get a copy!
October 5, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Looking forward to sharing the work at Gutter bookshop in Dublin! Tomorrow!
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“To assemble, to say no, to do no, throws so much open … doing what we can, when we can, however we can, in the wear and tear, for as long as it takes.”
Just read @saranahmed.bsky.social’s energising new book on complaining as a collective task of feminist and queer world (un)building. Get a copy!
Just read @saranahmed.bsky.social’s energising new book on complaining as a collective task of feminist and queer world (un)building. Get a copy!
October 5, 2025 at 8:25 AM
“To assemble, to say no, to do no, throws so much open … doing what we can, when we can, however we can, in the wear and tear, for as long as it takes.”
Just read @saranahmed.bsky.social’s energising new book on complaining as a collective task of feminist and queer world (un)building. Get a copy!
Just read @saranahmed.bsky.social’s energising new book on complaining as a collective task of feminist and queer world (un)building. Get a copy!
Such brilliant news! So many congratulations! @mckenziewark.bsky.social @susanstryker.bsky.social @dukepress.bsky.social
🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for LGBTQ+ Studies: When Monsters Speak: A Susan Stryker Reader by Susan Stryker, edited by McKenzie Wark! @susanstryker.bsky.social @mckenziewark.bsky.social @dukepress.bsky.social 🎉🎉🎉
#Lammys2025 #LammyAwards
#Lammys2025 #LammyAwards
October 5, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Such brilliant news! So many congratulations! @mckenziewark.bsky.social @susanstryker.bsky.social @dukepress.bsky.social
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People from all walks of life — including many British Jews — are protesting against your government’s complicity in genocide and standing in solidarity with Palestine.
Conflating Israel’s genocide in Gaza with British Jews is deeply inappropriate and dangerous. Shame on you.
Conflating Israel’s genocide in Gaza with British Jews is deeply inappropriate and dangerous. Shame on you.
October 4, 2025 at 10:10 AM
People from all walks of life — including many British Jews — are protesting against your government’s complicity in genocide and standing in solidarity with Palestine.
Conflating Israel’s genocide in Gaza with British Jews is deeply inappropriate and dangerous. Shame on you.
Conflating Israel’s genocide in Gaza with British Jews is deeply inappropriate and dangerous. Shame on you.
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"Why would it bow to antidemocratic pressures by placing a professor on leave without their request, consent, or involvement? That any university would do this is beyond comprehension and is cause for alarm about the future of academic freedom in Canada."
What Happened to the University’s Commitment to Free Expression? Charley Kirk, uAlberta, and Me | Centre for Free Expression
I was shocked when the University of Alberta administration informed me, one of its law professors, that I was being placed on non-disciplinary leave for my social media comments in the wake of Charli...
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September 29, 2025 at 2:54 PM
"Why would it bow to antidemocratic pressures by placing a professor on leave without their request, consent, or involvement? That any university would do this is beyond comprehension and is cause for alarm about the future of academic freedom in Canada."
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"Most violence happens in the home, not on the streets. [We had] a strategy to address it around four pillars: prevention, engagement, the victim’s journey, and rehabilitation.
That serious, practical work has now been pushed aside in favour of fearmongering and scapegoating." goodlaw.social/hudg
That serious, practical work has now been pushed aside in favour of fearmongering and scapegoating." goodlaw.social/hudg
In Kent, Reform’s talk of protecting women is a dangerous illusion | Good Law Project
Dodgy stats and questionable allies. It’s time to push back against Reform’s dangerous agenda on women’s safety, says Sara Fox.
goodlaw.social
September 29, 2025 at 11:49 AM
"Most violence happens in the home, not on the streets. [We had] a strategy to address it around four pillars: prevention, engagement, the victim’s journey, and rehabilitation.
That serious, practical work has now been pushed aside in favour of fearmongering and scapegoating." goodlaw.social/hudg
That serious, practical work has now been pushed aside in favour of fearmongering and scapegoating." goodlaw.social/hudg
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At Cornell, the Dean broke policy and ignored the disciplinary committee's findings that there wasn't evidence of discrimination, and forwarded the complaint to the Provost anyway. The Provost then opened an investigation.
September 29, 2025 at 1:20 PM
At Cornell, the Dean broke policy and ignored the disciplinary committee's findings that there wasn't evidence of discrimination, and forwarded the complaint to the Provost anyway. The Provost then opened an investigation.
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Cornell is cancelling a distinguished professor's classes on Gaza and suspending him because of the complaints of a student who previously served in Israel's military surveillance agency and was literally recording the comments of other students in class and deliberately derailing discussion.
September 29, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Cornell is cancelling a distinguished professor's classes on Gaza and suspending him because of the complaints of a student who previously served in Israel's military surveillance agency and was literally recording the comments of other students in class and deliberately derailing discussion.
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The Quakers issued this reply to a GC attack on their trans inclusion policy.
It’s incredible in its care and certainty. Its examples of transphobia are spot on. And >98% of Quakers surveyed agree with the policy.
Anyone implementing trans inclusion policies should take note. This is how to do it.
It’s incredible in its care and certainty. Its examples of transphobia are spot on. And >98% of Quakers surveyed agree with the policy.
Anyone implementing trans inclusion policies should take note. This is how to do it.
This, from the Quakers, is a pretty good example of how to resist pressure from bigot lobbying groups. Effectively “we legally can allow trans people to use the loo, we morally should, and we tried it and nothing bad happened”
www.quaker.org.uk
September 27, 2025 at 10:45 AM
The Quakers issued this reply to a GC attack on their trans inclusion policy.
It’s incredible in its care and certainty. Its examples of transphobia are spot on. And >98% of Quakers surveyed agree with the policy.
Anyone implementing trans inclusion policies should take note. This is how to do it.
It’s incredible in its care and certainty. Its examples of transphobia are spot on. And >98% of Quakers surveyed agree with the policy.
Anyone implementing trans inclusion policies should take note. This is how to do it.
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Rest In Power ✊🏼
September 26, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Rest In Power ✊🏼