My last book, Theory in Its Feminist Travels (Indiana, 1994), uses methods that emerge from Feminism and Writing Technologies, describing feminist theory as many objects of knowledge, constructed over time within competing feminist politics and conversations. I distinguish "conversations" from "debates" as political contour from theoretical contents. Conversations are units of political agency in action in theoretical discourse. They may overlap more than written theorizations--oratory, group production, private oralities, public actions --or they may be reflected in varieties or versions of informal writing or circulating manuscripts. Conversations reflect shifting alliances and the production of new political identities. The book self-consciously develops methodology intended to make conversations possible across feminist political and disciplinary divides; indeed, rather than staying stuck in (inter)disciplinary misunderstandings, the book models how to use such misunderstandings as the very ways into the viewpoints and values of differing disciplinary and political locations. The final chapter (originally an invited talk at an international feminist conference in Glasgow, Scotland), "Local and Global: AIDS Activism and Feminist Theory," is an analysis of some cultural productions, specifically international AIDS art-theoretical activisms (and some visual, literary, and performance arts) examined through the lens of what I call "Global Gay Formations and Local Homosexualities." "Gay," generally understood as the historically specific U.S. slang term from the 70's, now often materially internationalized, traveling globally via gay politics and gay tourism; "Homosexualities," the attempt at a universal (but uneasily, is it only male?) term, but pluralized, deliberately situating and resituating the medicalized-legalized discourses of the late 19th century; both politicized technologies, in layers of globals and locals, for materially producing people. In my new book project Feminism and Writing Technologies and Global Gay Formations and Local Homosexualities intertwine.