The tree imposes the verb “to be” but the fabric of the rhizome is the conjunction, “and … and … and …” This conjunction carries enough force to shake and uproot the verb “to be”.

Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, A thousand plateaus. capitalism and schizophrenia, 1987

The line of flight out of the dichotomous logic, of the Either / Or opens the possibility to think the AND : The AND between the struggle against racism and the struggle against Islamism, the AND between the struggle against Antisemitism and against racism, and against capitalism, and against sexism, and against ableism, and against pollution, and against heteronormativity, and, and, and … The rhizome finds its cohesion in the conjunction ‘and…and…and’ a logic of the AND.”

Niki Kubazcek, Transversale Insistenz. Oder Solidaritä als Vermögen, Verbindungen unter nicht Identem herzustellen 2021