Abstract
In her essay, Mary Jo Hinsdale addresses a most serious problem in our academic world: under administrative pressure to "diversify" the student population, we see an increasing number of students who, in Sara Ahmed's words, have been "made into strangers."1 Drawing on Frank Margonis's "political intersubjectivity," María Lugones's "world travelling," and Linda Tuhiwai Smith's legacy of "academic colonization," Hinsdale shows how the notion of play runs throughout, be it Margonis's "intersubjective play," Lugones's "playful attitude," or Smith's "rules of the game."She discusses how those students are not just excluded or marginalized, but they are "wounded," "too hurt to remain open." 2 They are weary and can no longer trust.In this response, I would like to revisit the concept of intersubjectivity, and address a couple of caveats.