Sublime

Where there is hope, there is difficulty.

To live a feminist life is to make everything into something that is questionable.

The figure of the feminist killjoy teaches us how the minimization of harm and the inflation of power often work together.

The figure of the feminist killjoy teaches us how the minimization of harm and the inflation of power often work together.

I began to realize what I already knew: that patriarchal reasoning goes all the way down, to the letter, to the bone. I had to find ways not to reproduce its grammar in what I said, in what I wrote; in what I did, in who I was.

To be a feminist can feel like being in a different world even when you are seated at the same table.

Sexism and racism: if they are problems we have given names, the names tend to lag behind the problems.

Cultural critic Lauren Berlant puts it eloquently: “There is nothing more alienating than having your pleasures disputed by someone with a theory.”

Cultural critic Lauren Berlant puts it eloquently: “There is nothing more alienating than having your pleasures disputed by someone with a theory.”