Ambivalence is generally viewed as a problem; describing first a specific psychological disorder and now, more broadly, indecision, self-contradiction, and uncertainty, ambivalence tends to be treated as something to be avoided or overcome, as unpromising, pathological, and even potentially dangerous. Recently, however, ambivalence has informed approaches to primary critical objects in the work of feminist, queer, and antiracist theorists—including Lauren Berlant, Saidiya Hartman, Jennifer Nash, and José Esteban Muñoz. In “Ambivalence as a Feminist Project,” Valerie Traub and her co-authors encourage the explicit theorization of ambivalence as a feminist method, arguing that the concept’s capacity to “hold space for conflicting emotions, contending historical phenomena, and overlapping affective, ethical, and political commitments” might be generative. In this course, we will ask what “hesitat[ing] in the face” of “epistemological dilemma” prompts us to notice— about the operations of power, the structural condition of life under neo-liberalism, and the binary of liberation and subjection.