About Us

We understand the challenges that lie ahead in strengthening our network. Academia, policy and praxis are not immune to the totalizing impact of global inequalities structured to reproduce hierarchies between the North and South and among scholars, activists, and practitioners. These disequillibriums disproportionately affect scholars, activists and practitioners from the Global South by undercutting their ability to disseminate ideas and contribute to critical debates. Resource constraints as they relate to scholarships, conference funds, research grants are exemplars of these inequalities. The digital divide within publishing and the production of critical scholarship outside the university space in the Global South, further compounds these challenges. There is also a great deal of precarity, personal risk, job insecurity and identity-based discrimination that force schoactivists to interlope across fields sometimes connecting them while at other times pushing them out of their respective fields.

We aim to establish a collective solidarity network of scholars and activists that encourages collaboration, critical scholarship and possibilities. It will not only help build bridges across geography and disciplines but also promote the means to decolonize academia and praxis and offer safe spaces for Scholactivists at risk by offering access to a solidarity network and resources and information. We hope to expand our network through collaboration in a way that connects research to ground realities, theory with praxis and makes research findings accessible to audiences beyond the academic format and in the form of policy reports or other digital formats. Our efforts are geared towards building solidarity and collaboration, and producing reflexive work in the pursuit of social justice. We plan to expand our network and hope you will join us in making this project a collective success.