Feminista Pláticas Across Borders: Theorizing Journeys of Belonging and Resistance in Academia

• In Event: Feminist Critique, Praxis and Relationality in Education

Abstract

While research highlights how intersecting oppressions affect racialized and gendered staff in academia, less attention is dedicated to alternative forms of theorizing and knowledge production enabling otherwise insights on non-dominant ways of being, relating, and knowing. In this article, three women of color scholars from immigrant backgrounds—based in the Netherlands, Belgium, and the United States—use pláticas, a Chicana/Latina feminist methodology, as method and praxis. Through virtual, transnational dialogues, we reflect on academic (un)belonging, resistance, and anti-racist futures in higher education. Through our pláticas, we offer methodological insights into alternative forms of knowledge production rooted in our situated knowledge and explore affirmative possibilities for transformative, justice-oriented change in academia.

Authors

• Leila Mouhib, Université Libre de Bruxelles

• Zehra Colak, Utrecht University

• Raquel Sáenz Ortiz, Southwestern University