Sara Ahmed and Roxane Gay: Living an (Educative) Feminist Life

• In Event: AERA Poster Session 5
  In Poster Session: The Biographical and Documentary Research Poster Session

Abstract

In the introduction to her book, Living a Feminist Life (2017), Sara Ahmed asserts that she intended the book to be an “intervention in academic feminism” to make feminist theory more accessible but ended up writing a lingering examination of her own feminist becoming and being, building what she called a “slow argument” to show how “feminist theory is what we do when we live our lives in a feminist way” (11). This paper proposes to examine how the writing about and living their feminist lives by Sara Ahmed and Roxane Gay offers educative guidance for living the slow argument of what it means to live a feminist life in a rape culture.

Author

• Becky M. Atkinson, The University of Alabama - Tuscaloosa