Living a Feminist Life

In a world in which human is still defined as man, we have to fight for women and as women.

We even transform the judgment into a rebellious command.

Because the figure of the killjoy comes up whenever there are difficult histories to bring up.

transfeminist killjoys (Cowan 2014), ethnic killjoys (Khorana 2013), crip killjoys (Mullow 2013), indigenous feminist killjoys (Barker 2015).

like an electric shock.

PRINCIPLE 10: I AM WILLING TO PARTICIPATE IN A KILLJOY MOVEMENT.

going back, retrieving parts of ourselves we did not even realize we had

when we give up, we do not just lose something

We find things. We find out things we did not know before—

unexpected moment that breaks a line