Twenty toes down (not including the ancestors): two Black feminists’ autoethnographic accounts of doing decolonial work as doctoral students
2024; Taylor & Francis; Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/09515070.2024.2447034
ISSN1469-3674
AutoresMonyae A. Kerney, Natalie Malone,
Tópico(s)Social Work Education and Practice
ResumoThis conceptual essay provides the autoethnographic accounts of two queer Black womxn PhD students doing decolonial research and healing work. As intersectional beings who center decolonial paradigms and values – specifically Black feminisms and Afro-Indigenous cosmological thought – we highlight the complexities of decolonial work as a graduate mentorship pair without the perceived "safety" of tenure or licensure. Through our frustrations and triumphs, acceptances and rejections, exhaustion and joy, health scares, and debt and abundance, we persist in "standing twenty toes down" (not including our ancestors) on our values and purpose. We begin with our positionalities followed by musings on "the state of the counseling psychology's soil" across four themes: (1) Everybody Wants Decolonial Work, But Nobody Wants to Decolonize, (2) "You really demonstrate that you can do excellent work and it doesn't matter what you look like": On Decolonized Bodies, (3) "All my life I had to fight": Angry Black Womxn and the Revolution, and (4) "You think you just fell out of a coconut tree?!": Bigger than Us. We conclude with implications for Black womxn healers doing decolonial work during their graduate study.
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