Sara Ahmed

Quotes

• “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.”
• “We learn about worlds when they do not accommodate us. Not being accommodated can be pedagogy. We generate ideas through the struggles we have to be in the world; we come to question worlds when we are in question. When a question becomes a place you reside in, everything can be thrown into question: explanations you might have handy that allow you to make sense or navigate your way through unfamiliar as well as familiar landscapes no longer work.”
• “The exposure of violence is perceived by the privileged as the origin of violence.”
• “To point out harassment is to be viewed as the harasser; to point out oppression is to be viewed as oppressive.”
• “Jokiness allows a constant trivializing: as if by joking someone is suspending judgment on what is being said. She didn’t mean anything by it; lighten up. A killjoy knows from experience: when people keep making light of something, something heavy is going on”

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Key dates

Born

30 August 1969

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Sara

Gender

female

Citizenship

Australia

Place of birth

Salford

Occupation

cultural studies scholar

Educated at

Cardiff University

Employer

University of Surrey

Languages spoken

English language

Field of work

postcolonialism

Official website

www.saranahmed.com

Image

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