Queer/Cuy(r) Decolonial Autoethnography. Notes from University Teaching for an Antiracist Sentimental (Re)education

Abstract

This autoethnography of university teaching is inscribed in the decolonial production of cuy(r)‐cuyr in Spain, as a rhizome of the productions enunciated from Abya Yala. I narrate my experience from the place of enunciation “university teacher” “university professor” articulating the plot of an affective politics and poetics that addresses issues such as migration, the colonial wound, racism, foreignization, immigration law, eurocentrism, heteronormativity. I include notes of critical reflections, rituals, practices and decolonizing tools that I have been including in the classroom and that have contributed to the healing repair of the wounds caused by epistemic violence.

While structural and political changes transform the public university in terms of epistemic justice and social justice, a queer/cuy(r) teaching praxis is presented from a decolonial, anti‐racist, lesbian and migrant perspective. Another expression of the epistemic, ontological and methodological plurality with which to test anti‐racist sentimental (re)education in public universities is made visible. It would be transformative to navigate academic life with affection, tenderness and support networks, creating other languages and affective horizons that make the university a place and an experience free of violence.