And what does it look like to, to pull threads? What happens when you pull the wrong thread? Um, and how do you know when you've pulled the right ones?

Ooh, wait, this is such a good question.

Um, let me explain, just to, like, give a quick, brief, uh, snapshot of what the threads mean, and then I'll go into the, the question of, like, how did I figure it out, and then also, like, what it ha- what happens when you have a wrong thread.

So, um, the thread metaphor that I use in chapter one of the book is, uh, coming from...

And I sh-really should give absolute credit to the authors here.

It's from M. Jacqui Alexander and Chandra Mohanty, s-Feminist Genealogies: Colonial Legacies and Democratic Futures, um, where they argue that different feminist threads, uh, across the globe, um, have historically been starting, like, their, their origin point has been in the Global North, and then they go to all of the other Third World, uh, feminisms, which is not the way that you wanna do things.

They argue instead we go from the local context to other local contexts, and those are the real threads that's coming out and performing and doing and creating this, uh, transnational feminisms.

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