Abstract
The material trades of repair—the stitching, bonding, reweaving, and patching—provide terms and methodologies that could be applied to multiple contexts and projects, including interpersonal lives. Intersectional feminism thus re-owns difference into a guide for understanding each other within the context of ablest patriarchal racial capitalism. Difference becomes the point of entry for collaborative exchange and potential mutuality. Material repairs make concrete, structural changes that can be immediate, compared to the murky duration of interpersonal, emotional repairs. Reconciliation is a turn of feeling that unfolds mutually between two people or parties, but if the efforts of one lean too heavily on another, those efforts will pinch and bind the process.