A review by rabelais
The Feminist Killjoy Handbook by Sara Ahmed

4.25

Aside from Ahmed's reliance on TERFs (Alice Walker, another whose name I cannot recall), it was ok. I didn't get much from this text (though I'm sure you will), except a new anti-ableist phrase: "privilege is using energy". Ahmed really could have added discussion with Talia Lewis to show just how massive that four-word phrase is. At the beginning you kind of think it's going to be a binary feminism 101, but after a bit Ahmed splits away from that course. That said, this text does heavily rely on a man-bad/woman-good dynamic. This handbook is akin to a primer, and yet can't we do better? Why do we need our fundamental units to start with false binaries? (We don't.)