Voices

Decolonial feminist psychologists train and work in diverse geopolitical contexts marked by histories of colonization and colonialism. These histories shape contemporary gender relations and feminist work in complex ways. Here, we highlight voices of decolonial feminist psychologists who have trained and/or are working in South Africa, India, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, and Türkiye.

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Floretta Boonzaier

Career focus: feminist, critical & postcolonial psychologies; subjectivity; gendered violence; qualitative psychologies; narrative, discursive, & participatory methods

Deanne Bell

Career focus: critical psychology; psychosocial theory; (re)humanizing race

Urmitapa Dutta

Career focus: community-based research; structural violence; intersectionality; gender justice

Lillian Comas-Díaz

Career focus: ethnocultural approaches to mental health; women's spirituality; intersecting identities; social justice; liberation psychology.

Özge Savaş

Career focus: critical social psychology; decolonial feminist psychology; intersectionality; migration, citizenship, and political belonging; community-based & participatory research

Shose Kessi

Career focus: political psychology; social change; social identity; community-based research; participatory research; qualitative research; Pan-Africanism; photovoice

Puleng Segalo

Career focus: intersection of community psychology, visual arts, & gender studies; community well-being; historical trauma as relational; reconciliation, social justice & psychological healing

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