This book is above all a commitment to encounter. Is the research result of a 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 volumes contributors are Alicia Migliaro Gonzalez, Ana Lucia Ramazzini, Colectivo Magdalenas UruguayTeatro de las oprimidas, Cristina Cucuri, Cristina Vega, Delmy Tania Cruz Hernandez, Dina Mazariegos Garcia, Elvira Cuadra Lira, Eva Vazquez, Gabriela Ruales, Gabriela Veras Iglesias, Giulia Marchese, Inigo Arrazola, Ivonne Yanez, Jonatan Rodas, Juliana Diaz Lozano, Lisset Coba, Lorena Rodriguez Lezica, Manuel Bayon, Mariano Feliz, Mauricio Arellano Nucamendi, Melissa Moreano, Miriam Garcia-Torres, Miriam Lang, Rosa H.G. Govela Gutierrez (), Rossana Cantieri Cagnone, Sofia Zaragocin, and Walda Barrios-Klee (). Rosa Govela Gutirrez and Walda Barrios-Klee died while the book was being edited.