A Madau-Moana Cosmopolitan Feminist R.I.P. to Deacademy
My overall project looks at the impact and influence of Oceanian feminist praxis, particularly within higher education. I agree with many scholars and activists who say the U.S. schooling project, which includes PreK to PhD, continues to be a tool to condition our minds and bodies to normalize colonialism, white supremacy, heteropatriarchy and the violence those systems produce. My project looks to the teachers and students of Oceanian feminisms, who work and/or study in the U.S., to understand how Oceanian feminisms reveal colonial regimes and create decolonial spaces within our school, to imagine, build, and sustain knew worlds (Meyer, 2013; Tecun, 2022).
