In Living a Feminist Life Sara Ahmed shows how feminist theory is generated from everyday life and the ordinary experiences of being a feminist at home and at work. Building on legacies of feminist of color scholarship in particular, Ahmed offers a poetic and personal meditation on how feminists become estranged from worlds they critique—often by naming and calling attention to problems—and how feminists learn about worlds from their efforts to transform them. Ahmed also provides her most sustained commentary on the figure of the feminist killjoy introduced in her earlier work while showing how feminists create inventive solutions—such as forming support systems—to survive the shattering experiences of facing the walls of racism and sexism. The killjoy survival kit and killjoy manifesto, with which the book concludes, supply practical tools for how to live a feminist life, thereby strengthening the ties between the inventive creation of feminist theory and living a life that sustains it.

在《生活中的女权主义》中，萨拉-艾哈迈德展示了女权主义理论是如何从日常生活中产生的，以及作为女权主义者在家庭和工作中的普通体验。特别是在有色人种女权主义学术遗产的基础上，艾哈迈德对女权主义者如何与她们所批判的世界疏远--通常是通过命名和呼吁关注问题--以及女权主义者如何从她们改造世界的努力中了解世界，进行了诗意和个人的沉思。艾哈迈德还对她早期作品中介绍的女权主义杀戮者的形象进行了最持久的评论，同时展示了女权主义者如何创造出创造性的解决方案--比如形成支持系统--在面对种族主义和性别主义的围墙时的破碎经历中生存下来。本书最后的杀戮者生存工具包和杀戮者宣言，为如何过上女权主义生活提供了实用工具，从而加强了女权主义理论的创造性创造和维持其生活之间的联系。