No Is Not a Lonely Utterance : The Art and Activism of Complaining

No blurb or details yet for next year's new book from Sara Ahmed, but here are a few words she's shared about this latest:

"I thought I was writing two handbooks with some old companions: a feminist killjoy’s handbook and a complainer’s handbook. And I did write them. For me a handbook is a hand and a handle: how we hold on to something. My editor at Penguin – the brilliant Josephine Greywoode -was concerned about the title A Complainer’s Handbook. She thought it made the work sound more prosaic and even plodding than it actually is. She wanted a title that would catch the more poetic style of at least some of the writing. Whilst we were chatting, I said in passing, “No is Not a Lonely Utterance.” I was talking about how when we say no we are often picking up from others, and how our no can be picked up by others. Well Josephine picked up that sentence, and suggested it as our title.

So, now it is! Introducing: No is Not a Lonely Utterance: The Art and Activism of Complaining"