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In this session, Romero examines how Indigenous subcultures function as third spaces of sovereignty. Third spaces of sovereignty are the resistive social formations Indigenous and disenfranchised peoples actualize when they refute colonial domination and demand recognition of their rights and lifeways.

We are excited to host an in-person film screening of Twice Colonized, which will be followed by an enriching question and answer period with Aaju Peter. Twice Colonized follows Aaju Peter’s lifelong fight for the rights of her people as she strives to reclaim her language and identity after a lifetime of whitewashing and forced assimilation. This film is also the winner of numerous awards including 2023 Best Feature Documentary (HotDocs) and 2023 Grand Pix Nordic Documentary (Oslo Pix Film Festival).

In this session, Kalaba delves into the narrative landscapes of African women leaders to explore the transformative potential of Ubuntu, an African philosophy rooted in communal values and collective well-being, in redefining leadership. Through storytelling and narrative inquiry, Kalaba engages with women's experiences and personal journeys, uncovering how Ubuntu's principles are actively incorporated into their leadership approaches.

In this session, Carvajal will illustrate how her lived experiences and Chicanx/Latinx Feminism, critical theories and Indigenous knowledges have informed her decolonial path.

What does education and research look like? What does it look like as an intention? Using lived experience as an example, the workshop will explore intention on the gain for knowledge, and how protocols come into play to accessing knowledge from people/groups/land. While this is a workshop in some ways, in many others, it is not as it will be a shared discussion of our human experience, of the known community of the planet Earth.