“In this close reading of use, Sara Ahmed leads the reader from object to object in a pace that moves with the deliberateness of a philosopher and the grace of a literary scholar. With this and other books, Ahmed has established herself as one of the most important feminist thinkers in the world.” — Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
“With characteristic verve and force, Sara Ahmed explores the uses of use. More than a history of an idea and much more than a philosophical investigation of use and value, Ahmed’s book teaches us how to locate use, usefulness, used upness, used objects, and useful and useless knowledge in relation to time, space, queerness, and more. Read this book, you need it, and more importantly, you will use it. It is useful and useless in equal proportion and compelling precisely because of its mixed use value. Before you know it, you will get used to use and you will carry it with you always.” — Jack Halberstam
“How lucky we are that feminist killjoy Sara Ahmed takes us on this learned, witty, and insightful journey. With her evocative exasperation at the state of affairs with regard to the (im)possibilities of diversity work and complaint, she dismantles the sexist and racist structures of the modern university. Now as a courageous, independent scholar, Ahmed continues to shine her characteristic phenomenological lights on walls and doors and more. She is still here; she refused to get used to it!” — Gloria Wekker