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In this piece we draw upon Donna Haraway's (2016) notion of the string figure to map affective-material entanglements in a postgraduate course on gender and education and how shared objects brought to class activated thought in collective, embodied, affective, and unpredictable ways. We explore how as yarn re-configured the relationality of the bodies and materialities in the classroom space, new pedagogical connectivities and ethical relationalities opened through relays and returns, giving and receiving, and affective 'response-abilities' across the assembled sets of hands, bodies, memories, materialities, and movements. We consider this as a practice of kinshipping and explore it as a pedagogical and methodological project for finding spaces of 'give' within the troubled lifeworld of the gender classroom. Yarning feminist pedagogies A ball of yarn unravels in rolls above desks, humming laptops, paper coffee cups, and human bodies. The yarn finds a hand amidst cheers and hoots. The yellow spool swiftly winds around a cookbook and then flies overhead to a new outreached hand. Next, it circles around a lipstick, a tampon, an iPhone and then is thrown again. It ducks under the buzzing ceiling projector and finds its way around a set of colorful beads, a flag, a plastic pack of birth control. Soon the room is a tangle of multi-colour thread, animated bodies, machines, and materialities.

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