“…On this (usually) celebratory day and week, we also think about lives lost in the pursuit of justice and equity (and due to COVID-19) and wonder how our work on this paper (k)not matters. 9 This wondering leads us back to how Springgay (2019, 2020) talks about more-than-human intimacies as felt (ness) committed to an ethics of care that both is “uncomfortable and perplexing” (Alaimo, 2010; as cited in Springgay, 2020; p. 4). With an uncomfortable and perplexing ethic of care in mind, we are reminded that our responsibilities as writers, scholars, artists, teachers, and learners are deeply entangled with life, death, oppression, service, celebration and… and… and… Like this entanglement, we acknowledge that material, methodological, and pedagogical responsibilities “can(k)not” (Hofsess & Rhoades, forthcoming, this issue) be unknotted, yet we attempt to pull them apart to stir, settle, and rebuild (Haraway, 2016) (k)not mattering together with each other and with you.…”