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acknowledgments It is difficult to put into words the web of connections that has sustained this book over the years. My first and deepest thanks go to the teachers and mentors who helped this work grow: Sue Campbell, James Clifford, Lorraine Code, Angela Davis, Barbara Epstein, Donna Haraway, and David Hoy. They are extraordinary scholars, unparalleled interlocutors, and exemplars of principled, warmhearted, cheerful living. I anticipate spending much of my life attempting to follow their examples, and I am honored to have had the chance to work with them. Intellectual community is a blessing I have experienced in abundance. Thank you to the participants in conferences at University of Wisconsin–La Crosse, Harvard University, Purdue University, Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis, City College of the City University of New York, UC Davis, UCLA, University of Dayton, Simon Fraser University, and colloquia organized by the Society for Women in Philosophy, Pacific Division, Dalhousie University, the Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy, the Association for Feminist Ethics and Social Theory, and the Society for Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture. Thank you also to the University of California, Santa Cruz’s Friday Forum. I have been fortunate to find supportive colleagues at Laurentian University in the Philosophy and English Departments, and I thank them as well. My undergraduate and graduate students at Laurentian have provoked me to think through these issues anew almost weekly. The staff and readers for Penn State Press renewed my faith in academic publishing. Thank you to Sandy Thatcher for editorial guidance, Kathryn Yahner for meticulous support, and the anonymous readers who gave detailed and productive feedback on the book. Shannon Sullivan identified herself as one of these readers, and I am pleased to be able to thank her directly for past and future critical readings. Nicholas Taylor’s lucid and acknowledgments | viii careful suggestions for sharpening the text were a gift. I am grateful also to Laurie Prendergast for preparing the index. My work has benefited from conversation, political work, and play with more people than I can name. Thanks to Pasi Ahonen, Aren Aizura, Max Bell Alper, Patrick Barnholden, Clare Bayard, Kim Bird, Bekki Bolthouse , Regan Brashear, Jessica Breheny, Marta Brunner, Sean Burns, Shana Calixte, Chris Crass, Lucas Crawford, Lisa Guenther, Mrinalini Greedharry , Kelly Fitzmaurice, Ami Harbin, Adam Hefty, Cressida Heyes, Rahula Janowski, Jennifer Johnson, Gary Kinsman, Joseph Lapp, Alice MacLachlan, Jim Maughn, Peter Murray, Scott Neigh, Michelle O’Brien, Justin Paulson, Pamela Perry, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, Maia Ramnath, Michael Rasalan, Trevor Sangrey, Kim Tallbear, Kalindi Vora, Ryan Wadsworth , Marla Zubel, everyone in the Student-Worker Coalition for Justice, the Graduate Student Solidarity Network, Free Radio Santa Cruz, Sudbury Against War and Occupation, the transsomapolitics formation, and the Long Road collective. Scout Calvert, Ada Jaarsma, Nora Madden, James Rowe, and Rebecca Schein are shining friends and comrades. I also thank the Shotwells—Hudson, Janet, Vivien, and Gordon—for a constant stream of love, e-mail, and goodness. Above all, thanks to Chris Dixon for dauntless and unflinching conversation, meticulous reading, and all forms of sustenance. Earlier formulations of parts of this book appeared in Race and the Foundations of Knowledge, edited by Joseph Young and Jana Evans Braziel, published by the University of Illinois Press (2006); The Shock of the Other: Situating Alterities, edited by Silke Horstkotte and Esther Peeren, published by Rodopi (2007); Upping the Anti: A Journal of Theory and Practice 6 (October 2008); and Agency and Embodiment, edited by Sue Campbell, Susan Sherwin, and Letitia Meynell, published by Penn State Press (2009). ...

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