The first time I read this line from Disco Elysium I was basically jumping up and down pointing at the screen like "yes, I know those people!!" and it has haunted me every since.
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![A screenshot from the Introduction of Sara Ahmed's book "Complaint!" Some sections are highlighted (in brackets). The text reads: "[Complaint: a path of more resistance. The institution becomes what you come up against.] At times it felt like we were getting somewhere. At other times the wall came down and we realized that however far they were going to go, they were not going to go far enough. We could not even get public acknowledgment from the administration that there had been any inquiries. It was as if they had never happened. To hear complaint can be to hear that silence: what is not being said, what is not being done, what is not being dealt with. It was during one of those times, walls coming down, the sound of silence can be walls coming down, that I decided I wanted to conduct research on other people’s experience of complaint.
[My own experience of working with students on these inquiries led me
to this project. So much of what you do, the labor, the struggle, happens
behind closed doors: no one knows about it; no one has to know about
it.] My desire to do this research came from a sense of frustration, the
[feeling of doing so much not to get very far.] Frustration can be a feminist record. My desire to do this research also came from my own conviction that [if you ask those who complain about their experiences of complaint, you will learn so much about institutions and about power: complaint as feminist pedagogy.] Yes, frustration can be a feminist record. Another way of putting this: Watch out, we have the data."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ffyd7z5dj6eiarwnlk272xzj/bafkreibrjezg77mpg7i3ijr2axmxehm7jvmk6wbgsk2kmoyr36ndvy5iim)
