Nepantla represents an unstable, unpredictable, precarious, transitional space/time/epistemology lacking clear boundaries, directions, or definitions.

While the book is referenced in order to illustrate a shift in mainstream feminism, it is not used to theorize or to further develop these alterations.

This Bridge Called My Back contains important lessons for all social-justice actors (scholars, activists, students, and more)—no matter how we identify.

She acknowledges the gap in her understanding and (rather than retreating) reaches across this gap to make connections.

“threshold theories” to underscore their nonbinary, liminal, potentially transformative status.

risk being wounded”

Differences are drained of complexity and defined in narrow, either/or terms that limit our options and strangle our imaginations.

intellectual humility as an open-minded, flexible way of thinking that entails the acknowledgment of our inevitable epistemological limitations, the acceptance of uncertainty and the possibility of error, and intense self-reflection.

complex interconnections among a variety of sometimes contradictory worlds—points crossed by multiple intersecting possibilities, opportunities, and challenges.