In this lecture I explore how complaints can be feminist pedagogy: we learn about institutions from making complaints within them. We learn how power works by making it hard to challenge how power works. I consider how some people become complainers without making complaints because of what they need to do their work or the kind of work they do. To become a complainer is to become a complaint magnet, to attract as well as receive complaints. The lecture concludes with a discussion of the work of complaint collectives and complaint activism, exploring how complaints can be used to press against institutions and to press for institutional change.

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