ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a personal yet broadly relevant account of the experience of silencing constituted around intersectional axes of oppression. These relate to homophobia, misogyny, racism, Islamophobia, allegations of anti-semitism and the privileging of certain presentations of intelligence. From this exploration of my background, I describe feelings of oppression in my group-analytic training and suggest ’Affectivism’ as an engaged way of recognizing the affects surrounding oppression and attending to them, though that is necessarily difficult. Doing so allows the potential location of disturbance to be a location of discovery, where a curious rather than curative stance can be taken.
