No! : the art and activism of complaining /

An assembly of refusals portraying the radical power of "no" by the renowned scholar and author of The Feminist Killjoy Handbook, Sara Ahmed.To be heard as complaining is not to be heard, writes Sara Ahmed. In her sweeping exploration of complaint as a means of resistance, Ahmed attunes he...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ahmed, Sara, 1969- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2026.
Edition:First Feminist Press edition.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Preface: a complaint biography
  • Introduction: a feminist ear
  • Part 1: Making complaints. Complaints as coming-out stories ; A complainer as an institutional plumber
  • Part 2. Changing institutions. Complaint as fminist pedagogy ; Complaint as diversity work
  • Part 3. Dismantling and world-building. Complaints as activism ; Complaint as a queer method
  • A complainer's survival kit
  • A complaint curriculum.