I am grateful to my committee, Mark Warren, Laura Janara, and Bruce Baum, who have been unfailingly supportive and encouraging. I am lucky to have Mark Warren as my supervisor and mentor. Mark provides a model for quality, nuance, and detail that will forever be the standard against which I measure my own work. He has seen this work in all its iterations and somehow remained interested throughout. Mark, to watch your mind at work has been a privilege and a pleasure. Laura Janara sets an example as a theorist, teacher, and human being to which I will forever aspire. Her dedication to her students' work and wellbeing, her unwavering faith in my abilities, her careful attention-I need a better phrase than "thank you." From very early on, Bruce took the time to recommend books and articles to read, always encouraging and gently critical. His first concern was always that I enjoyed what I was doing. Quite simply, the best committee I could have hoped for. There are many faculty members at UBC who, although I did not take a class with or, in some cases, even share subfields with, still expressed interest in the work and the student.

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Some women did not participate in the Women's March, rejecting its claims of unity and solidarity because white women mobilize only in their self-interest. This is a form of exit with three features: (1) rejecting a political claim; (2) providing reasons to the power wielder and the broader public; and (3) demanding accountability both as sanction and as deliberation, which requires a discussion about the claim-in this case, the meaning of the group and the terms on which it understands itself. This combination of exit, voice, and deliberative accountability might accurately be called "discursive exit." Discursive exit addresses conceptual and normative limitations of standard accounts of exit, voice, and loyalty, in particular, when exit and voice are imperfect-because exit can be seen as disapproval of an entire cause-and morally problematic-because voice "from within" implies that cause trumps disagreement, leaving people morally complicit in an unwelcome exercise of power.

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