This book is above all a commitment to encounter. Is the result of the labor of the Working Group (Grupo de Trabajo) of the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO), which brings together people who study and research, but who, above all, carry out collective actions from social organizations to transform the reality of our continent. This character of thinking doing, or rather, of doing thinking, of the Grupo de Trabajo gives this text a peculiar cadence. A cadence that demands a collective and cooperative authorship. It is also a recovery of the struggles that precede us, the sutures of the loom of memory that patriarchal and colonial capitalism strives to pierce, and that is another of the powers of this book. The book invites to dismantle the patriarchal and colonial legacies embedded in the very foundations of hegemonic academic thought, and demonstrates the urgent need to understand this as a political task of the moment. It is organized into three main stations, which, like a train journey, can be travelled through sequentially from beginning to end, or entered randomly, stopping at one or another section according to the interests and concerns of the moment.

The volume’s contributors are Alicia Migliaro Gonzailez, Ana Luciia Ramazzini, Colectivo Magdalenas Uruguay-Teatro de las oprimidas, Cristina Cucurii, Cristina Vega, Delmy Tania Cruz Hernaindez, Dina Mazariegos Garciia, Elvira Cuadra Lira, Eva Vaizquez, Gabriela Ruales, Gabriela Veras Iglesias, Giulia Marchese, In??igo Arrazola, Ivonne Yainez, Jonatan Rodas, Juliana Diiaz Lozano, Lisset Coba, Lorena Rodriiguez Lezica, Manuel Bayoin, Mariano Feiliz, Mauricio Arellano Nucamendi, Melissa Moreano, Miriam Garciia-Torres, Miriam Lang, Rosa H.G. Govela Gutieirrez (), Rossana Cantieri Cagnone, Sofiia Zaragocin, and Walda Barrios-Klee (). Rosa Govela Gutierrez and Walda Barrios-Klee died while the book was being edited.