Sara Ahmed presents two of her books, 'Feminist Killjoy Handbook' and 'Queer Vandalism', with her co-translators Emma Bigé and Mabeuko Oberty.

She also talks about the forthcoming book 'Vivre une vie féministe' (published by Hors d'atteinte).

She talks feminism, compulsory happiness, and collective forms of resistance.

Sara Ahmed defines herself as a "feminist killjoy". Her philosophical thinking combines ideas drawn from queer studies, feminist theory, critical race theory, Marxism and psychoanalysis.

This talk is an opportunity to look back at her work and the killjoy solidarities she teaches us to weave.
Sara Ahmed defines herself as a “feminist killjoy”.

She says it’s “what I do, it is how I think, it is my philosophical and political work”. Her philosophical thinking combines ideas drawn from queer studies, feminist theory, critical race theory, Marxism and psychoanalysis. In Spring 2024, three of her books will simultaneously be published in French: Vandalisme queer (Burn∼Août), Vivre une vie féministe (Hors d’atteinte) and Manuel rabat-joie féministe (La Découverte).
 

Emma Bigé studies, writes and translates in the fields of dance, queer studies and environmental inhumanities.

A doctor of philosophy, dancer, and exhibition creator, she is the author of Mouvementements. Écopolitique de la danse, published by La Découverte (2023). She is a member of the editorial team of the journal Multitudes, and irregularly teaches epistemology at art schools and choreographic centres. She lives near a forest in the Périgord region of France, and whenever she can, she rolls around on the ground.

Poetic writing, choreographic performance and theoretical research run through Mabeuko Oberty's work.

In the course of a cross-disciplinary career that has included studies in medicine, language sciences and socio-anthropology, as well as teaching in schools and health care centres, Mabeuko discovered Body Weather, a practice developed in Japan to which they have devoted themselves for the last ten years.