The Feminist Killjoy Handbook: The Radical Potential of Getting in the Way
Thus, Hollis explicitly exhorts women to self-police and censor their negative feelings. Against Beyoncé’s putative bitterness and rudeness—a textbook iteration of the pathologized “angry Black woman”—Hollis establishes the desirable femininity as not angry, not rude, not bitter, and, implicitly, not Black.
Rosalind Gill • Confidence Culture
This is how to become feminist is to be assigned as being willful: you are not willing to recede.
Sara Ahmed • Living a Feminist Life
Everyday life generates feelings of despair and anxiety which become internalized and labeled as depression. In therapy culture, these feelings are traced back to childhood trauma or medicalized as a biochemical disorder located outside the individual’s control. But these frameworks do not account for the socio-political forces of depression, which... See more