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What else does loyalty stop us from noticing? I think of those Sometimes if you have a sense of something wrong, you might check in with others. For me, working as an independent scholar, writing is a handle that gives me something to hold onto; I know that is not true for everyone.

You speak up and the diversity committee is where you end up.There can be a problem with who ends up on such committees.
This is why I describe diversity workers as institutional plumbers; you have to work out how things are blocked because they are blocked.

They were all colleagues of the lecturer who assaulted her. The “wench in the works” has a queer kinship with the feminist killjoy, a kinship of figures can be a kinship of persons, as non-reproductive agents, as those who are trying to stop what usually happens from happening.

That complaint can still be picked up and amplified by others.

That’s a question we often get asked.

And if you have to struggle to get out of the room, it can be another struggle to get a complaint out. Doors came up figuratively, certainly, but it was the actual doors that first caught my attention.

She said: “they probably deleted it from their memory.” This deletion is what enables them to stay loyal to a white friend, to maintain an idea or investment of her as a good person who would not say or do what they are committed to opposing.What else is being deleted?

Franklin introduces the cyborg embryo picking up on Donna Haraway’s (1991) creative reuse of the figure of the cyborg as well as her use of the concept of “trans-” to describe how new hybrid entities “blast widely understood notions of natural limit” (Haraway, 1997, cited in Franklin 2006, 170).

One student who made a complaint about sexual harassment describes, “The scale of the response was so extreme in a way compared to what we were complaining about. Two women academics I spoke to, one who was sexually assaulted by a lecturer when she was a student, the other who was physically assaulted by her head of department as a lecturer, described to me in acute detail the handles or locks on the doors of the office or corridor in which the assault happened because those handles or locks were difficult to use. Queer use might describe this potential for an explosion, how small deviations, a loosening of a requirement, the creation of an exit point, opening a door to allow something to escape, can lead to more and more coming out.One student submitted a letter of complaint to her head of department about bullying from a professor in her department.

We can nod in encouragement when we sense someone is feeling nervous. This is not to say that we are always stopped; you have to work harder to get through the doors of perception. The responses lead her to doubt herself: “the person who was the main protagonist in the banter; I was told he couldn’t beWe carry our complaints with us whether or not we make them.So many of the people I spoke to made use of this expression, “making a fuss,” as if to complain is to be fussy, to be too particular, demanding even, as if a complaint makes something bigger than it needs to be, as if you are making yourself bigger than you are. And she pulls down the blinds and she pulls on a mask, the mask of her people, connecting her fight to the battles that came before, because, quite frankly, for her, this is a war.Our battles are not the same battles.

So you speak up at the kitchen table, or the family dinner table, when somebody says something racist or misogynist.At the family dinner table, you want to call attention to the racist thing that your great uncle just said, but you don't want to shut the conversation down, right? The externality of “gender” as a category can then be used to refer to the externality of people who are assumed to rely on a category for their existence (simplified as: gender does not exist, you don’t exist as you say you do). Hearings can be walls, silence can be hard; you have to push very hard to make a complaint if that’s how you have been heard, not heard, if you have not being taken seriously before.I have learnt from talking to people how ways of speaking and behaving that seem, at one level, obviously problematic can still be justified as how things are or how things are done.
When I shared my reasons for resigning I became the cause of damage. Gays and lesbians too were often presented as endangering childrenMany of us can recognise these forms because we have seen them before.Power is often legitimated by treating an effort of a minority to survive, to create resources to enable their survival, as the formation of an industry.

It does not follow we should not use due processes and procedures – (12) I will be writing on complaints and leaving in due course.

She has evidence that the university did not follow its own procedures. She talked to me about how the project of surviving the violence of colonial occupation led her both to complain For many, surviving institutions requires trying to avoid “these encounters” that you recognise because they happen. If the complaint was evaporated the harassment “has not magically gone away.” Her complaint comes out in the middle of the meeting, not as an account given by someone to someone, an intentional action, but as a sound, eehhhhh, a gut-wrenching expression of a no, or even a no, not again, or even, enough is enough. “I worry about drawing attention to myself. It has been so very helpful to have this book project to focus on during these times, to keep my bearings by listening and working through these stories.I am going to take a break and then I will be back. In this conclusion, I reflect on the significance of how complaints can lead you to find out about other complaints (and thus to find others who complained). Even if you have to complain about something that is being done to you, whether by somebody else or by a structure that is enabling somebody else, you still have to come to terms with yourself.

We called each other family because we turned up for each other when we are cast out from our homes, our communities.

She talked to me about how being a person who had complained – a complainer, even; we can reclaim that figure – mattered to her.