Haki/pl aticas testimonios/shahadat: Arabyya feminista decolonial praxis

Abstract

The authors share how their Arabyyat and Chicana feminist pedagogies and methodologies, haki/pl aticas testimonios/shahadat, contribute to a decolonial praxis. We center haki/pl aticas testimonios/shahadat and introduce what we term as “Arabyya feminista decolonial praxis” in education as an act of linguistic and epistemic disobedience. Our work, pedagogies and methodologies, advance the esthetic dimensions of our Arabyya feminista praxis. We delineate how in merging theory and practice is intuitively guided by our her/histories, sensibilities, and ways of being for/with each other. Coming from la Mirada al Sur, our transnational collaboration is captured in our testimonios/shahadat and displayed in the poetics and art that sprung via our haki/pl aticas. We conclude that this work is needed more than ever and with a brief analysis of the esthetics of these methodologies as our Arabyya feminista decolonial praxis.