No Is Not a Lonely Utterance

Ahmed merges her own experience with stories shared by other battle-scarred complainers… These stories bolster Ahmed’s cutting observations about the nefarious means by which power is maintained within institutions… Readers will find meaningful insight and support * Publishers Weekly *
Doesn’t simply celebrate complaints; it reimagines them as a form of resistance and recognition… Ahmed’s book is an insightful reminder: Sometimes the squeaky wheel doesn’t get the grease until it’s too late – Natalie Haddad * Hyperallergic *
A must-read … Ahmed does an excellent job of calling the reader to action whilst pointing out that solidarity and resistance look like different things to different people – Ashley * Glasgow Women’s Library *
Remarkable … has the potential to generate real change. In a world that is so turbulent and unpredictable, this book is the hope that so many people are searching for – Ellie Johnson * Zimmer Magazine *
Brilliantly rearticulates the feminist method of complaint as a necessary and productive daily inhabitation of the political … a loud and insistent demand for a more just world – Jasbir Puar, author of The Right to Maim
Goes beyond the academy to our shared histories of dismissal and denial … In an act of solidarity and resistance, we all need to sign up to the complaint collective Ahmed suggests – Pratibha Parmar, writer and filmmaker
Praise for Sara Ahmed – - * : *
Sara Ahmed always has her finger on the pulse of the times – Angela Davis
A brilliant feminist thinker… Ahmed moves from scene to scene with clarity, rage, and joy, building through each refrain to mark the brutal violence of everyday encounters – Judith Butler
Clever and generous… has a talent for bringing her readers with her, without ever dumbing down or sugar-coating her politics, love of theory, or lived experience as a queer woman of colour – Zora Simic * Inside Story *

Sara Ahmed is an independent feminist scholar who works at the intersection of feminist, queer, and race studies. Her research is concerned with how bodies and worlds take shape, and how power is secured and challenged in everyday life as well as institutional cultures. She has published eleven books, including The Feminist Killjoy Handbook.

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