Resources

This page gathers articles, books, profiles, websites connected to decolonial feminism, liberation psychology, visual methodologies, and decolonial approaches to research and practice.

Articles & Chapters

Cervantes, A. (2020). Testimonios. In L. Comas-Díaz & E. Torres Rivera (Eds.), Liberation psychology: Theory, method, practice, and social justice (pp. 133–147). American Psychological Association.
https://doi.org/10.1037/0000198-008

Chavez-Dueñas, N. Y., Adames, H. Y., & Perez-Chavez, J. G. (2022). Anti-colonial futures: Indigenous Latinx women healing from the wounds of racial-gendered colonialism. Women & Therapy, 45(2–3), 191–206.
https://doi.org/10.1080/02703149.2022.2097593

Comas-Díaz, L. (2019). Journey to psychology: A mujerista testimonio. Women & Therapy, 43(1–2), 157–169.
https://doi.org/10.1080/02703149.2019.1684676

Comas-Díaz, L. (2022). Decolonization: A personal manifesto. Women & Therapy, 45(4), 304–319.
https://doi.org/10.1080/02703149.2022.2125617

Comas-Díaz, L., & Jacobsen, F. M. (2024). Decolonial psychotherapy: Joining the circle, healing the wound. In L. Comas-Díaz, H. Y. Adames, & N. Y. Chavez-Dueñas (Eds.), Decolonial psychology: Toward anticolonial theories, research, training, and practice (pp. 295–320). American Psychological Association.
https://doi.org/10.1037/0000376-013

Fernández, J. S. (2024). Disciplinary disruptions: Strategies toward a decolonial community psychology praxis. In L. Comas-Díaz, H. Y. Adames, & N. Y. Chavez-Dueñas (Eds.), Decolonial psychology: Toward anticolonial theories, research, training, and practice (pp. 143–167). American Psychological Association.
https://doi.org/10.1037/0000376-007

Fernandez, J. (2022). A mujerista liberation psychology perspective on testimonio to cultivate decolonial healing. Women & Therapy, 45, 1–26.
https://doi.org/10.1080/02703149.2022.2095101

Kurtiş, T. & Adams, G. (2015). Decolonizing liberation: Toward a transnational feminist psychology. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 3(1), Article e4867. https://doi.org/10.5964/jspp.v...

Silva, J. M., Fernández, J. S., & Nguyen, A. (2022). “And now we resist”: Three testimonios on the importance of decoloniality within psychology. Journal of Social Issues, 78(2), 388–412.
https://doi.org/10.1111/josi.12449

Methods

Delgado Bernal, D., Burciaga, R., & Flores Carmona, J. (2012). Chicana/Latina testimonios: Mapping the methodological, pedagogical, and political. Equity & Excellence in Education, 45(3), 363–372.
https://doi.org/10.1080/10665684.2012.698149

Comas-Díaz, L., & Jacobsen, F. M. (2024). Decolonial psychotherapy: Joining the circle, healing the wound. In L. Comas-Díaz, H. Y. Adames, & N. Y. Chavez-Dueñas (Eds.), Decolonial psychology: Toward anticolonial theories, research, training, and practice (pp. 295–320). American Psychological Association.
https://doi.org/10.1037/0000376-013

Journal Issues and Books on Decolonial Feminisms, Gender, and Decoloniality

Bhana, D., Shefer, T., & Chandra, G. (Eds.). (2026). Decolonial feminism, decolonizing feminisms: Transnational perspectives. Routledge.

Bhatia, S., Carolissen, R., Ciafolo, N. & Rutherford, A. (Eds.) (2025). Towards a decolonial psychology: Recentering and reclaiming global marginalized knowledges. American Psychologist, 80(8), 1097-1338. [Whole issue]

Decolonial Issue Editorial Collective (in random order: Suffla, S., Reddy, G., Adams, G., Ratele, K., & Stevens, G.) (Eds.) (2021). Decolonial Perspectives in (and on) General Psychology. Review of General Psychology, 25(4). [Whole issue]

Kamlongera, M. I. (Ed.). (2025). Decoloniality in gender discourse and praxis: A view from the margins (1st ed.). Routledge.

Macleod, C. I., Bhatia, S., & Liu, W. (2020). Feminisms and decolonising psychology: Possibilities and challenges. Feminism & Psychology, 30(3), 287–305.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0959353520932810

Readsura Decolonial Editorial Collective (in random order: Suffla, S., Adams, G., Reddy, G., & Ratele, K) (Eds.). (2022). Decoloniality as an Issue for Psychological Study. Journal of Social Issues, 78(1). [Whole issue]

Readsura Decolonial Editorial Collective (in random order: Reddy, G., Suffla, S., Ratele, K., & Adams, G.) (Eds.). (2022). Psychology as a Site for Decolonial Intervention. Journal of Social Issues, 78(2). [Whole issue]

Santana, M. et al. (Eds.)(2025). Practicing decolonial and liberation psychologies. American Psychologist, 80(4), 447-684. [Whole issue]

Websites

African Psychologies — YouTube

Decolonial Feminist Collective

Global Feminisms Project

The Hub for Decolonial Feminist Psychology in Africa