Diffracting bag lady stories and kinship: cartogra-ph-ying and making-with others in morethan-human affirmative spaces

During the COVID-19 pandemic, we, asearly career researchers/educators,came together in digital spaces with a love of storytelling and playfulness in our being, doing, thinking, and making.This was underpinned by Le Guin’s (2019) conceptualisation of bag ladiesalongwith feministmaterialism and posthumanistways of thinking and doing. In our article,we examine the ways in which our bag lady storytelling became entwined with an online reading group.Together with fellow kin, we wayfaredalong our own paths, connecting in both virtual and physical spacesin which we formedmeshworks of safety and companionship(Ingold, 2007).We developedour article along the way of these pathsby taking a multimodal and polyvocal approach.Together and individually, we considered howwe are the apparatus through which we diffract posthumanist and feminist thinking.We end our article withan invitation to those who read and engage with our work to join our bag lady collective.