Introductory paragraph: Focusing on the roles and defiant performances of Kurdish women, The Mother, the Politician, and the Guerilla is an inquiry into the Kurdish-Turkish conflict and the political visions of Kurdish women. In exploring radical imagination, a path previously trodden by Franz Fanon, Nazan Üstündağ writes that texts have a rhythm: ‘As I travelled through Kurdistan, its rhythm has always been halay, and this book is written in its rhythm’ (p. 19). As she explains, halay is a dance where several individuals hold hands. In writing her book, she has been holding many hands from feminism and black studies to decolonial thought, just to name a few.