During his keynote address at the inaugural Conference on Community Writing, Paul Feigenbaum discussed his origins as a “frustrated idealist” and wondered, “if it is possible to be a justice oriented scholar.” Many social justice scholars are likely revisiting the nature of “justice oriented” scholarship with a renewed sense of frustration and urgency in the current post-sense era of American politics. With Collaborative Imagination, Feigenbaum has provided more than a timely and meticulous study in activist rhetoric. He has advanced critical literacy theory in ways that are urgently necessary for the discipline to take up and apply.