“Phenomenology helps us explore how the familiar is that which is not revealed. A queer phenomenology shows how the familiar is not revealed to those who can inhabit it. For queers and other others the familiar is revealed to you, because you do not inhabit it. To be “estranged from” can be what enables a “consciousness of.” This is why being a killjoy can be a knowledge project, [and] a world-making project…Power speaks here in this moment of hesitation. Do you go along with it? What does it mean not to go along with it? To create awkwardness is to be read as being awkward. Maintaining public comfort requires that certain bodies ‘go along with it.’ To refuse to go along with it, to refuse the place in which you are placed, is to be seen as causing trouble, as making others uncomfortable. There is a political struggle about how we attribute good and bad feelings, which hesitates around the apparently simple question of who introduces what feelings to whom.” —Sara Ahmed 2010: Feminist Killjoys (And Other Willful Subjects)
Posted on: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 06:41:34 +0000
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