Authors
- Michelle ForrestMount Saint Vincent University
- Suzanne McCullaghAthabasca Universityhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-9718-0794
- Ian ReillyMount Saint Vincent Universityhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-8985-4333
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.26522/ssj.v18i4.4290Keywords:
complicity, reckoning, academic subjectivity, epistemic injustice, decolonial, feminism, settler colonialism, patriarchy, racism, open normativities, collectivitiesAbstract
In this paper we reflect upon our multi-year reading group as a site of decolonial feminist praxis that motivates reading in a different register from how we were trained to read as academics in the humanities. In collaborative study we willingly open ourselves to change, to being worked on by one another and by the texts we read. Our reading together has initiated the undoing of settler colonial academic subjectivity and the co-creation of new forms of scholarly subjectivity grounded in relations of care, openness to transformation, and a growing commitment to epistemic justice. In giving an account of our group history and process we reflect on our complicities with settler-colonialism in the university and consider the ways that reading together has cultivated our capacities to listen to counter-narratives, formulate institutional and self critique, and engage in epistemic reparations.
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