Thinking WithOut

Although words such as feminism, gender, women are not in-cluded in the title, and are hardly mentioned in the whole text — they are at the very heart of it. It is only through feminist theory that I have realized what it means to have a non-smug theory that is not all about self-satisfaction, self-promotion, and self-preservation as is the case with most Western theoretical projects; it is only through feminist politics that I have discov-ered what it means to have politics that is not translated into the preservation of the status quo and/or reduced to an instrument of power. Generations of feminists are showing us how being politi-cal always calls for one’s own undoing; it involves re-imagining and re-inventing our own positions, locations, and belongings. And finally, it is a life of experiencing the invisibility of women’s thinking and doing that teaches us — if we want to make a dif-ference, if we are looking for a change — not to rely on what is visible, thinkable, sayable, audible, or generally, on what is given or taken for granted.