Writer, academic and activist.
Specialising in queer theory and post-colonial criticism, in her work she uses the tools of feminist theory to analyse mechanisms of oppression and discrimination in everyday life and in institutional contexts. She coined the idea of the “feminist killjoy”, with which she identifies, to mean one who never tires of raising their voice against different forms of discrimination. Her books include The Promise of Happiness (2010), Living a Feminist Life (2017), The Cultural Politics of Emotion (2004), Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others (2006), What’s the Use? On the Uses of Use (2019) and Complaint! (2022).
