Preface

Page xi →This book grew out of both frustration and hope. In my own daily encounters with digital spaces, I have seen how quickly ideas can spread, how movements can gather force, and how stories—especially those told from the margins—can find audiences they were once denied. But I have also witnessed how circulation is never neutral: whose voices are amplified, whose work is credited, and whose presence is erased are variables shaped by long-standing power structures and deeply entrenched inequalities.

Approaching circulation from a transnational feminist rhetorical perspective feels urgent to me because it centers the questions I cannot stop asking: Who gets heard, and why? What kinds of labor and care sustain our digital worlds, and why do they remain invisible? How can we imagine circulation not as something that just happens to us, but as something we can shape more ethically and collectively?

I write this in a moment when our digital lives touch nearly every corner of our personal and political worlds. My hope is that these pages offer a way to pause, reflect, and reimagine—reminding us along the way that circulation is not just about speed or reach, but about connection, responsibility, and the possibility of transformation.