ABSTRACT
The authors hope the stories stand as problematizers of current ontological, epistemological, methodological, and ethical concerns voice, authorship, and situatedness. They hope stories stand as scholarship that treats the Others not as objects/subjects of study but as co-constructors of decolonizing acts and performances. They are not claiming to have an original idea for decolonizing scholarship and methodologies. But they are still very distant from living in that world, where all humans are born free and equal in dignity and rights. Race, class, and gender, social constructs at the center of our stories and scholarship, continue to be sites of inequality and indignity here in the USA, in Brazil, and most of the world. Here is where critical autoethnography as one probably prefer to call it, can play a role in promoting and advancing this notion of unconditional humanization. Marcelo says that critical autoethnography is a methodology with unique guidelines for scholars concerned with resisting and challenging ideologies of domination.
