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	1	+Debate is not a safe space – minoritized bodies are constantly told they are too loud or too angry or too emotional – we are constantly told to be happy, to stop complaining, to just do “real debate”.
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	3	+Exclusive forms of debate are driving out minority debaters by making debate technocratic and elitist. It desensitizes debaters to ignore violence and racism while excluding marginalized bodies. Thus, the role of the judge is to vote for the best resistance strategy for the oppressed.
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	5	+Fine 13 Todd; Founder of project Khalid and coaches the debate team at Washington Latin Public Charter School in Washington, D.C. and is Vice President of the High School D.C. Urban Debate League and writes for the huff post; “Qatar Conference on Scholastic Debate Examines Activity's Role in Empowerment”; Huffington Post; 3/10/13 @ 5:12 am; Accessed 2/17/15 @ 12:43 pm; http://www.huffingtonpost.com/todd-fine/qatar-conference-on-schol_b_2429645.html
	6	+Meanwhile, the National … hopelessly irredeemable America.
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	8	+And, spaces like debate are oriented around the repetition of bodies that inhabit them – a chair become molded around a body that constantly sit in it – when I sink into the chair, if I fit into the mold I no longer notice the points of tension between my body and the chair. Bodies sink into chairs in the same way bodies sink into institutions – whiteness cohere spaces in certain shapes so that bodies that fit in them no longer notice friction while those that don’t experience stoppage and tension – this is why debate tournaments are full of white guys in suits, because when people of color or women enter the cafeteria they are seen as out of place.
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	10	+Ahmed 07 Sara Ahmed "A Phenomenology of Whiteness" Goldsmiths College, University of London 2007 www.rainbow-season.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Feminist_Theory-2007-Ahmed-149-68.pdf
	11	+But how does … some and not others.
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	13	+This creates friction – bodies are stopped and interrogated when they do not fit in the orientation of the space. Feminine speech in spaces of white supremacy becomes the incessant nag. This inequality makes debate impossible – unconscious and informal mechanisms of exclusion mean that participants aren’t on an even playing field.  Even when minoritarian subjects do speak, they are not heard – addressing this social inequality is a prerequisite for further deliberation.
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	15	+Fraser 90 Fraser 90 *Edited for ableist rhetoric Nancy, Prof of Political and Social Science at the New School, “Rethinking the Public Sphere,” Social Text 25/26, p.63-65
	16	+Habermas's account of … discursive interaction within them.
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	18	+AND, this creates uneven energy distributions. Institutions deplete the energy of those it wants to exclude – the energy to get up, to keep fighting, to keep existing in spaces.
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	20	+Ahmed 13 Sara Ahmed "Feeling Depleted" November 17, 2013 Feminist Kill-Joy https://feministkilljoys.com/2013/11/17/feeling-depleted/
	21	+I am currently … depleted with others.
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	23	+This is a form of psychological violence – alienation and isolation within debate deplete the energy of minoritized bodies who are held up as symbols of diversity when they do well and experience microaggressions when they don’t. The burden is constantly on those bodies to make the debate space more accessible.
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	25	+Thus, we advocate the methodology of the feminist killjoy – refusing the requirement to be happy or complicit within systems of oppression. Our affective analysis contests hegemonic structures of deliberation that marginalize the oppressed and kill the joy of white comfortability.
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	27	+Ahmed 10 Sara Ahmed "Feminist Killjoys (And Other Willful Subjects)" The Scholar and Feminist Online The Barnard Center for Research on Women Summer 2010
	28	+Killjoys To be unseated … we will and we are.
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	30	+A killjoy kills the joy of sexist and racist institutions and refuses the modes of happiness that are forced upon them – calling out sexism at debate tournaments kills the joy of the white male debaters; the Zapatista movement congregated around a Brown Metisza identity and used that to kill the joy of white supremacy; it is an internal rejection of the paradigm of complicity in happiness – reclaiming the idea that women or people of color constantly need to be happy in systems of oppression.
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	32	+Net Benefit is Collectivization – our method is an act of self love that opens up spaces of solidarity and connects minoritized bodies together. Our methodology supports bottom up movements that refuse humanizing politics. These spaces of solidarity can resolve psychological violence because we refuse the internal demands to be happy in spaces that oppress us
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	34	+Ahmed 14 Sara Ahmed "Selfcare as Warfare" feministkilljoys https://feministkilljoys.com/2014/08/25/selfcare-as-warfare/ August 25 2014
	35	+“Caring for myself … for your survival. Always.

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	1	+2017-03-20 00:47:40.872

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	1	+Tom Evnen, Becca Traber, Sarah Ryan

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	1	+Scarsdale GZ

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	1	+31

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	1	+Quarters

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	1	+Stuyvesant Fennell Aff

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	1	+JANFEB - Killjoy 1AC v5

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	1	+Harvard