To Hermana Peggy O’Neill of Suchitoto, El Salvador, and to the women of Birth Choice, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and Access Women’s Health Justice, Oakland, California. Across many divides, you are kindred spirits, seeing with the heart, laboring always toward the good.

And to the memory of Beatriz Garcia, who died October 8, 2017, at age twenty-six, from complications of lupus and from the particular cruelty with which the forces of poverty, class, education, power, and gender collided to shape her destiny.