Affiliated initiatives

TColl activily seeks to work together with individuals and groups that are committed to rehumanising and decolonising knowledge through bridging the gap between academia and activism.

Together with these affiliated initiatives and other individuals, we come to the following aims and principles for engagement:

Aims

We aim to spread and develop our knowledge and ideas on decoloniality and to counter (anti-black) racism and white supremacy through:

  • the creation of spaces and possibilities for free and accessible public learning
  • the creation and sharing of knowledge, practices and languages

Core principles for engagement

As a result of realising the (anti-black) racist, white supremacist situation we are forced to live in, we maintain the following principles in all the activities we undertake:

1. Inclusivity

We welcome anyone willing and open to listen to, learn from, and actively engage with decolonial voices from the Global South and voices from the South in the Global North (i.e. marginalized people within the Global North) to counter (anti-black) racism and white supremacy

2. Shifting the geography of reason

We commit to listen to, learn from, and actively engage with decolonial voices from the Global South and voices from the South in the Global North (i.e. marginalized people within the Global North) to counter (anti-black) racism and white supremacy

3. Sharing knowledge and collaboration

We commit to share knowledge through free and accessible media. We actively seek collaboration with those committed to   spread and develop knowledge and ideas on decoloniality and to counter (anti-black) racism and white supremacy

4. Pluriversality

We commit to the creation of spaces and possibilities that enable the coexistence of multiple ways of knowing and being as expressed in the words of subcomandante Marcos Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN), Mexico: “luchar por un mundo donde otros mundos sean posibles.”

5. Life as the last instance

We commit to sumak kawsay, the Quechua-Aymara concept also known as buen vivir which refers to life in harmony and equilibrium between people, and people and their environment to strive to co-existence in a world without white supremacy and (anti-black) racism.