Cynthia Enloe, the prominent feminist scholar and political theorist, delivered a thought-provoking address at Connecticut College in 2011 that challenged the graduates' comfortable notion of what it means to be 'connected.' She began by describing an early-morning class presentation she'd attended, where students in Professor Tristan Borer's class had given voice to diverse women around the world who shape world politics but never get the microphone. Enloe argued that real connection isn't the reassuring, comfortable feeling people typically imagine. If making a connection feels comfortable, she suggested, you probably haven't truly made one. Genuine connection is unsettling because it creates mutual responsibility—the other person's life begins to affect yours, and yours begins to affect theirs. It was a redefinition that set the stage for her broader argument about the invisible threads connecting consumers to workers around the globe.