Liminagraphy: Lessons in Life-Affirming Research Practices for Collective Liberation

Abstract

Liminagraphy, is a life-affirming approach to research that offers a pathway to decolonial re-existence and collective liberation. Co-created with women of colour and those at the margins of academia, liminagraphy attends to the double erasure of modernity/coloniality, moving away from its politics of representation and into reception where we can become intelligible to each other through our non-dominant differences. Theoretically underpinned by the anti-colonial practices of decolonial feminism, black studies, African philosophy and Chicana Studies, liminagraphy offers a collective relational-ethics orientated towards the sustaining of life. Using poetry, storytelling and podcast as forms of enfleshed theorizing, its creative potential lies in the refusal of taken-for-granted research protocols.