Here is a small excerpt from Sara Ahmed’s “Bringing Feminist Theory Home.” I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about my relationship to feminism and academia. I always return to this particular section to stimulate some thought around this. I have too much whirling around my head at the moment to say much more about this in a cohesive way so I am leaving it here for others to ponder with and fall down the existential rabbit hole of navigating personal politics.