In Living a Feminist Life Sara Ahmed shows how feminist theory is generated from everyday life
and the ordinary experiences of being a feminist at home and at work. Building on legacies of
feminist of color scholarship in particular Ahmed offers a poetic and personal meditation on
how feminists become estranged from worlds they critique-often by naming and calling attention
to problems-and how feminists learn about worlds from their efforts to transform them. Ahmed
also provides her most sustained commentary on the figure of the feminist killjoy introduced in
her earlier work while showing how feminists create inventive solutions-such as forming support
systems-to survive the shattering experiences of facing the walls of racism and sexism. The
killjoy survival kit and killjoy manifesto with which the book concludes supply practical
tools for how to live a feminist life thereby strengthening the ties between the inventive
creation of feminist theory and living a life that sustains it.
