Inspired by the scrappy and recycled epistolary materials of Emily Dickinson’s poetry (fig. 1), the paper was a collage of excerpts from the correspondence by which we had slowly gathered and reflected on our research. It was an assemblage of accumulated cut-outs from a pandemic world; a sticky juxtaposition of our work with the intimate distractions of lives-in-confinement; a thrifty art of attachment, which helped us to understand more of our everyday adherences to our work on chronically ill, chronically marginalized female subjects, long dead, as well as to each other as feminist scholars and writers.