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🧵2/2 Sara Ahmed: Queer Phenomenology. Orientations, Objects, Others.

For me, the question is not so much finding a queer line but rather asking what our orientation toward queer moments of deviation will be. If the object slips away, if its face becomes inverted, if it looks odd, strange, or out of place, what will we do? If we feel oblique, where will we find support? A queer phenomenology would involve an orientation toward queer, a way of inhabiting the world by giving ‘‘support’’ to those whose lives and loves make them appear oblique, strange, and out of place.

Ahmed, S., 2006, Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others, Duke Univ. Press, Durham NC

#SaraAhmed #QueerPhenomenology #QueerTheory #phenomenology #theory #orientation

🧵1/2 Sara Ahmed: Queer Phenomenology. Orientations, Objects, Others.

To resist an impulse to make deviation a ground for queer politics is not, then, to say that it does not matter which lines we follow. It does matter. Some lines, as we know, are lines that accumulate privilege and are ‘‘returned’’ by recognition and reward. Other lines are seen as ways out of an ethical life, as deviations from the common good. Despite this, queer is not available as a line that we can follow, and if we took such a line we would perform a certain injustice to those queers whose lives are lived for different points.

#SaraAhmed #QueerPhenomenology #QueerTheory #phenomenology #theory #orientation

"When we talk of “white men” we are describing an institution."
- Sara Ahmed, White Men

If you haven't read Sara Ahmed, you're missing out.

Her essay "White Men" goes a long way to making sense of how institutions work, and how their behaviours diverge from their stated mandates.

I read this essay 8 1/2 years ago and I have never stopped thinking about it.

https://feministkilljoys.com/2014/11/04/white-men/

#Kyriarchy #SaraAhmed #FeministKilljoy #Race #Gender #Hegemony

"Unseen violence is not simply violence that is not seen. Unseen violence is an action. You have to unsee something because it is seen. A complaint can be an effort to make the violence seen, to bring it out. A protest, also, can be an effort to bring the violence out, to make it public by creating a public." (Sara Ahmed, Killjoy Truths)

https://feministkilljoys.com/2023/10/16/killjoy-truths/

#FeministKilljoy #SaraAhmed #FreePalestine #KilljoyTruths

This week’s Philosophy Unleashed (the last before the Easter break) looks at the institutionally racist, misogynistic, and homophobic London Met police force and calls out their commissioner, Mark Rowley, for refusing to use the word “institutional”. It also looks at institutional prejudices baked into schools. https://www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/151-institutionally-afraid-on-the-importance-of-acknowledging-institutional-prejudice

#Philosophy #PhilosophyUnleashed #MarkRowley #InstitutionalRacism #InstitutionalPrejudice #Police #Schools #Education #Policing #LondonMet #Blog #Writing #Bias #StructuralRacism #SaraAhmed #LindaAlcoff #IanCushing #CaseyReport

Today’s Philosophy Unleashed looks at the myth of impartiality: https://www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/150-you-cant-be-neutral-on-a-moving-train-gary-lineker-and-the-myth-of-impartiality

#Philosophy #PhilosophyUnleashed #impartiality #GaryLineker #SaraAhmed #HowardZinn

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Redoing this with new character limit! Partial taglist of important-to-me #theorists, #TheoristActivists, #PublicThinkers, #Philosophers (there is an emphasis here on #theory to #praxis synergy):

#SaraAhmed #MonicaRMiller #AnthonyBPinn #ImaniPerry #JasbirKPuar #AchilleMbembe #JacquesDerrida #GayatryChakravortySpivak #ChristinaSharpe #ZakkiyahImaniJackson #KatherineMcKittrick #SylviaWynter #HortenseSpillers #TiffanyLethaboKing #JenniferCNash #AlexanderWeheliye #DionneBrand #HeatherPool #KateManne #JudithButler #TrishaRose #SaidiyaHartman #DonnaHaraway #bellhooks #PhilipDeloria #DeniseFerreiraDaSilva #AndreaSmith #AudraSimpson #JuliaSerano #MichelleAlexander #AudreLorde #KeeangaYahmattaTaylor #ToniMorrison #AliSmith (modern fiction writer, but I swear the most Derridean thinker I've run across) #MelissaHarrisPerry #SikivuHutchinson #AngelaDavis #ChristopherMDriscoll #ArenZAzura #MartinHaagland

@Sean1966 I mean, sociologically, anthropologically, and psychologically, I don't think "weakness" is even properly how that works. I agree, though, that it is the philosophical weakness of Western thought that continually searches, even scientifically (see #Enlightenment) for #extrahuman sources of affectivity. Here, #SylviaWynter is helpful, as is #SaraAhmed's work on #QueerPhenomonology, and Anthony B Pinn's work on #BlackHumanism.

"In Complaint! Sara Ahmed examines what we can learn about power from those who complain about abuses of power. Drawing on oral and written testimonies from academics and students who have made complaints about harassment, bullying, and unequal working conditions at universities, Ahmed explores the gap between what is supposed to happen when complaints are made and what actually happens."

#highered #SaraAhmed #Complaint! #abuse #Bureaucracy #Institutionalabuse

https://www.dukeupress.edu/complaint