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+Spaces 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 the chair in the same way bodies sink into institutions –masculinity and 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. |
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+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 |
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+But how does … some and not others. |
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+This creates friction – bodies are stopped and interrogated when they do not fit in the orientation of the space – speech and dissent is restricted and dismissed. Feminine speech in spaces of white supremacy becomes the incessant nag, producing a powerless text that either forces womxn to speak and be made powerless or voluntarily fall silent. Womxn are not able to speak freely. |
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+Deem 96 Deem 96 Melissa, Prof of Comm. at Univ. of New Hampshire, “From Bobbitt to SCUM: Re-memberment, Scatological Rhetorics, and Feminist Strategies in the Contemporary United States” Public Culture p.513-515 |
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+The fascination of … of containment - dangerous. |
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+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 that have told you time and again that you shouldn’t exist here. |
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+Ahmed 13 Sara Ahmed "Feeling Depleted" November 17, 2013 Feminist Kill-Joy https://feministkilljoys.com/2013/11/17/feeling-depleted/ |
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+I am currently .. depleted with others. |
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+part 2: killjoy |
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+Thus, we affirm the resolution to create a site of freedom of speech to ‘give the killjoy back her voice’. We advocate the methodology of the feminist killjoy to open up spaces of the university in debate to creates sites of discourse and disrupt spaces of whiteness in order to reclaim the complaint. This public statement contests the hegemonic structures of deliberation that marginalize marked bodies – true deliberation is impossible unless the embodiment of the speakers is directly confronted |
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+Ahmed 10 Sara Ahmed "Feminist Killjoys (And Other Willful Subjects)" The Scholar and Feminist Online The Barnard Center for Research on Women Summer 2010 |
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+Killjoys To be unseated Be willful, we will and we are. |
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+And, Freedom of speech requires emancipation from social oppression – instead of viewing freedom of speech as a negative individual right, we should understand it as the right to speak up. |
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+Hornsby 95 Jennifer Hornsby "Disempowered Speech" University of Arkansas Press Philosophical Topics, Vol. 23, No. 2, Feminist Perspectives on Language, Knowledge, and Reality (FALL 1995), |
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+Free speech is … will be indispensible. |
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+part 3: debate |
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+Oppression in debate is perpetuated by the decisions community members make on a weekly basis. We look to real world implications in order to access debate’s liberatory potential. Thus, the role of the judge is to vote for the best resistance strategy for the oppressed. |
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+Smith 13, Elijah. A Conversation in Ruins: Race and Black Participation in Lincoln Douglas Debate |
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+It will be … students cannot escape. |