“We have to become willful, perhaps, to keep going the way we are going, if the way you are going is perceived to be ‘the wrong way’…For you to keep going you have to push harder than any of those individuals who are going the right way. The body ‘going the wrong way’ is the one that is experienced as ‘in the way’ of the will that is acquired as momentum…To be willful is to provide a point of tension. Willfulness is stickiness: it is an accusation that sticks. If to be attributed as willful is to be the cause of the problem, then we can claim that willfulness as a political cause. Queer feminist histories are full of self-declared willful subjects.” —Sara Ahmed 2010: Feminist Killjoys (And Other Willful Subjects)
Posted on: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 06:41:59 +0000
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