From Tatreez to Tejido: Weaving Hemispheric Constellations of Kinship into Higher Education

• In Event: Home and Kinship for College Students

Abstract

Higher education institutions (HEI) continue to be places of epistemological, physical, and emotional violence for students, faculty, staff, and surrounding communities. In parallel with institutional violence is how HEI's operationalize anti-relational environments to uproot, displace, and isolate people. However, people in HEIs have long created places and sites of relational refuge, forming and fostering kinships across space, time, and people. This paper brings together the conceptual theory of "weaving constellations of kinship" as our response to humanizing higher education. We draw from SWANA, Indigenous, Black, and Queer literature to emplace a theory of kinship worlding in response to the violent university.

Authors

• Pablo Montes, Texas Christian University

• Sahar D. Sattarzadeh, University of the Free State