E ASIAN 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Audre Lorde
26 Feb 2020
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Killjoy: a project that comes from a critique of what is (ahmed 249) When you are not supposed to live, as you are, where you are, with whom you are with, then survival is a radical action; a refusal not to exist until you do not exist. We have to work out how to survive in a system that decides life for some requires the death or removal of others. Sometimes: to survive in a system is to survive a system. Some of us have to be inventive, audre lorde, suggests, to survive. (ahmed 237) Without killjoy there is no challenge and no change. Sara ahmed"s principles of her killjoy manifesto. I am not willing to make happiness my cause. I am willing to support others who are willing to cause unhappiness. I am not willing to laugh at jokes designed to cause offense. I am not willing to get over histories that are not over.
