I obviously knew who you were because black feminist scholars knew Moya Bailey before everybody else knew Moya Bailey, let's put it that way. And we were affiliated with the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program at the time – and you were as well. We invited you to the group, and that group was great because we didn't just get together as a writing group and do check-ins around our projects. We also were very careful about curating it so that it was a safe space for queer feminist faculty and women-identifying and non-binary-identifying people to come and vent about some of the things that they were experiencing that weren't about their research. Sometimes they were venting about things related to research, but sometimes it was about something problematic that a colleague said, something that a student did that was hurtful, or other things. We had a “Vegas rules” policy that what happens in a feminist faculty writing group stays there, and we enforced that. We were excited to have you in the group, and part of that was that because we found out that you were working on stuff around #GirlsLikeUs, which was exciting. It wasn't just that we figured out we were working on some similar questions, or we had some similar interests. We got to know you by being in the group, hearing about what you were working on, and discovering you're a lovely person who we love. I've been surprised by how often I get asked a question about, “How would you collaborate? How can we write a book together?”, and I found that sometimes people get stumped about how to build these collaborations this natural collaboration evolves. You, I and Brooke’s case wasn't that we cold-emailed each other; It had nothing to do with what I would say is sort of the capitalist idea of networking. It actually had to do with community building, where we cared about each other and learned about each other, and knew about the hard things in each other's lives. We also discovered that we had similar intellectual interests and questions and grew to respect one another's work, and what each of us could offer to a project. Maybe it doesn't work this way for other people, but I try to always tell people if you really want to be a collaborative scholar, and you really want to work with other people, build community first. Build this basis where community can thrive. Be a person that your colleagues can trust. first. I think collaboration goes a lot easier than if the person you're collaborating with doesn't know you, or doesn't know anything about your caretaking responsibilities, or your personal journey.