Stick pedagogies are messy and imperfect. They remind us, “[l]ife is a meshwork” (Ingold, 2014, p. 57) requiring us to acknowledge as Haraway (2016) writes, “[i]t matters what matters we use to think other matters with; it matters what stories we tell to tell other stories with; it matters what knots knot knots, what thoughts think thoughts, what descriptions describe descriptions, what ties tie ties (p. 12).