“…While we all agree WPA-L served for many as a valuable professional resource, our purpose has not been to recount its utility but instead to reflect upon it through an anti-singular disciplinary and theoretical framework to explore the complex creation and interaction of networks and the interplay of race, gender, power, and disciplinary transformation. We hope to have provided a "thin description" (Färber, 2014) of various events that led to a revolutionary disruption causing major changes in how WPA-L as an extension of the disciplinary network of writing studies proceeded with business as usual. We chose thin over thick description in that we focused "on tracing the elements creating connections, the forms of links and transformations, as well as the materiality involved" (Färber, 2014, p. 354).…”