Kayla’s Project

My key texts and my theoretical framework(s) are: decolonial feminism as defined by Maria Lugones, and Black feminist epistemology as discussed by Patricia Hill Collins.   Lugones presents decolonial feminism as a method for challenging the hierarchical, dichotomous categorisations produced by the colonial project rooted in theft, extractivism, racial capitalism and white supremacy. Lugones suggests that the move toward a decolonial feminism as a practice, is a coalitionist project of resistance. “It is movement toward coalition that impels us to know each other as selves that are thick, in relation, in alternative socialites, and grounded in tense, creative inhabitations of colonial …

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