ABSTRACT
The conversation reflects upon Indigenous-centred, feminist, and decolonial methodologies, based on a story of a poetic co-writing and co-publishing practice, unfurling across borders, marked by difference – between Hema’ny Molina Vargas, an Indigenous activist and poet-philosopher with Selk’nam ancestry from Tierra del Fuego, Chile; Camila Marambio, a Chilean curator, scholar, and eco-activist and Selk’nam ally; and Nina Lykke, a white queerfeminist professor from the Global North, and also Selk’nam supporter. Through insightful questions, the interviewer, Kharnita Mohamed, a Black Muslim feminist, teaching anthropology at the University of Cape Town, and grappling with the contradictions of living in post-apartheid South Africa, prompts the three co-authors to tell the story of their passionately loving transnational feminist relationship – from its start at a writing workshop in Chile to the co-authoring of an article “Decolonising Mourning" in Australian Feminist Studies (2020). Sustained by playful English/Spanish translations by Fernanda Olivares Molina, Hema’ny’s daughter, also a Selk’nam activist, Hema’ny, Camila and Nina reflect upon their shared commitments to trusting transversal relations, loving friendships, ancestrality, bodily materialities, embodied storytelling, poetry writing, ongoing relations to the dead, and ethico-political passions for decolonization and a planetary ethics of sustainability. They discuss how these commitments became key methodologies for shared decolonial feminist writing engagements.
