ABSTRACT
This chapter attempts to articulate a politics that starts not only from thought, but from suffering and pain. Many theories of resistance, citizenship and justice start from positions of power, rather than positions of suffering. The chapter helps people think about what kind of politics might arise from suffering and societal abjection, how people might recognize it and understand it, and what type of citizenship is constituted through such political understandings and acts. Acts of diva citizenship often lack a specific agenda or measurable goal; they are intended to expose the citizenship gap and shock white citizens into knowing how compromised citizenship has been as a category of experience and fantasy. In order to make sense of the politics, the nature of the marginalized's inhabitance of the city must be explored. The chapter also talks about Audrey Wollen's Sad Girl Theory and Hedva's Sick Woman Theory.
