Theories of Change: Methodological Exploration of the Potential and Challenges of Feminist and Community Collaborations

• In Event: Imagining Next Social Justice Activism for a Just Future

Abstract

This paper will discuss how we designed feminist action-research collaborative transformative research practice. Our project seeks to engage in feminist decolonial praxis that results from collaborative and reciprocal relationship between all parties involved (Delgado Bernal & Alemán, 2017; Deeb-Sossa, 2019). In this paper, discuss the challenges and possibilities of forming reciprocal collaborative with community-partners and how this transformation facilitates greater consciousness and bridging worlds to respond to community needs and to think critically about the historical and contemporary contributions of people of color, women, LGBTQ+/queers to culture, epistemology, and multiple ways of knowing.

Presenter

• Alejandra Elenes, University of Texas at San Antonio