The most effective means to refute the prevailing ideologies is to do so collectively—crafting new stories, images, ways of interacting, and investments in those who have been denigrated and discarded. To think about the collective also means being okay with less focus on exceptionalism and instead giving all students opportunities to stretch their

struggle cannot be all serious and dutiful, that social change should revolve around what makes life nourishing, delicious, and erotic. “We all need and deserve pleasure,” she writes, and “our social structures must reflect this.”