ABSTRACT
What happens when feminists speak out against forms of violence, power and injustice? What role do emotions play in acts of speaking out and in the ‘spectacle’ of demonstrating against such forms of power? Sunera Thobani, at a conference on ‘Critical Resistance’ which took place in Ottawa in October 2001, took the risk of speaking out against the ‘war on terrorism’. Bringing
together a feminist and anti-racist critique, Thobani’s speech intervened in the discourse around the ‘war on terrorism’, which had been deployed by Bush and others to attribute danger to ‘could-be terrorists’, who are already marked by their difference ‘from us’ (see Chapter 3).
