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Practicing Decolonial Love

           Transnational Feminist Partnerships for Collective Liberation – Practicing Decolonial Love is a grassroots collaboration led by Drs. Amel Aldehaib and 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.

Dr Amel Aldehaib is a Sudanese Advocate for Peace and Justice.

Amel has collaborated with international organizations, civil society, and academic institutions to promote peace, justice, human rights, gender equality, and women’s empowerment. Her passion for evidence-based solutions and collaborative partnerships addressing complex development and humanitarian challenges created the foundation for her doctorate in Social Justice at the University of British Columbia and inspires her ongoing work.

In May 2023, Amel co-founded Goodness Radiance, a volunteer-based women-led grassroots organization in Sudan, whose mandate is to empower displaced peoples and host communities through livelihood, health, education, and protection supports. In collaboration with Transnational Feminist Partnerships for Collective Liberation, we are currently focusing on enhancing Goodness Radiance’s capacity to effectively deliver its mission to contribute to collective efforts aimed at ending human suffering, atrocities, and genocide in Sudan.

Dr Magnolia Pauker is an undisciplined scholar and theorist, Professor in Studies for Women and Gender at Vancouver Island University and Lecturer in the Faculty of Culture + Community at Emily Carr. Her practice of philosophical journalism engages in what she calls ‘interView’ as a form of relational pedagogy and knowledge making, to ferment critical consciousness, and to ask how we inhabit the histories we inherit. 

Magnolia works in the overlapping fields of intersectional feminist and gender studies; critical race and Indigenous studies; media and journalism theory and history; critical and cultural studies; French theory; visual culture; and postcolonial, anti-colonial, and decolonial theory and practice. She is co-editor of InterViews in Performance Philosophy: Crossings and Conversations, a collection of original essays and interviews with Judith Butler, Alphonso Lingis, Catharine Malabou, Avital Ronell, and others (Palgrave Macmillan 2017). Current work includes a book project entitled, Philosophy Now! Genealogies of Philosophical Journalism & The Question of the Present (Forthcoming 2026) and Transnational Feminist Partnerships for Collective Liberation – Practicing Decolonial Love.

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Contact

Email: tfp4cl@proton.me or magnolia.pauker@viu.ca

Cover Photo: Galal Yousif Goly, “Peaceful Revolution,” 2021.