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Abstract

Amidst the recent passing of Senate Bill 17 and increasing restrictions on academic freedom, and efforts to shut down encampments, political tensions have been on the rise at Texas university campuses. As women of color scholars learning to navigate these challenges, we are committed to fostering safe pedagogical spaces that honor minoritized students’ voices. This paper examines interpretations of solidarity narratives between Chicanx and Palestinian feminist authors through a decolonial feminist lens and employs an autoethnographic methodological approach such as autohistoria-teoría to highlight parallels between the authors' lived realities. Authors begin this conversation by using their own narratives of resistance as examples to create bridges of understanding and ground their scholarship in “theories of the flesh” (Anzaldúa, Moraga 4th ed. 2021). Through reflections offered in this article, authors open an entry point into exploratory analyses of pedagogical approaches of Chicanx and Palestinian women’s narratives of solidarity, drawing on the theoretical frameworks of Gloria Anzaldúa, Cherríe Moraga, Edward Said, Rabab Abdulhadi and others. By contextualizing these texts within broader sociopolitical contexts, they will elucidate the parallels and connections between the Chicanx struggle, specifically within Texas, for a departure from U.S. settler-colonial forces and the Palestinian struggle for liberation in the Middle East, forged in resistance to Zionist settler-colonialism. Anzaldúa’s insights into borderlands and hybridity, alongside Said’s theories of Orientalism and exile, extending on intersectional and decolonial feminist connections within the existing literature, and illuminating literary bridges and autoethnographic analyses to nurture feminist solidarity work within academia.

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