Practicing Decolonial Love
Transnational Feminist Partnerships for Collective Liberation – Practicing Decolonial Love is a grassroots collaboration led by Dr. Amel Aldehaib and Dr. Magnolia Pauker committed to mobilizing direct support for people displaced by the violence in Sudan, and beyond.
Rooted in intersectional, Black, Indigenous, anti-colonial feminisms of the Global South, our work together is based on the principle of solidarity as a political practice of decolonial love and mutual liberation.
VIU students have supported and contributed to this work in fundamental ways, through building media infrastructures to support community engagement, by co-authoring a situation report on violence against women and girls in the current conflict that Dr. Aldehaib was able to use to support local aid organizations in Sudan, and in brainstorming ways to fundraise without replicating and engaging the charity industrial complex.
In these times of tremendous violence and oppression globally, it is all too easy to despair, to be overwhelmed by a sense of hopelessness. Echoing Mariame Kaba, we understand hope to be a discipline that we practice through engaging, sharing, and amplifying knowledge held by our Sudanese partners as we advocate for peace and justice.
Linking critical analysis and learning with material practice, we work in solidarity, drawing together what Leanne Betasamosake Simpson calls, “constellations of co-resistance” for our mutual liberation.