Panel Description (We are screwing up and sticking with it)

While technopreneurs have embraced the idea and practice of failing as necessary training for eventual success, in this panel we situate front and center our screw-ups and struggles in the classroom while divesting ourselves of the belief that we will succeed in decolonizing anything. Instead, we underscore screwing up as our default pedagogical practice, and how we endeavor to keep sticking with it. As educators, scholars, and students of the interdiscipline of STS with experience in different global contexts, we have largely organized our teaching and scholarship around decentering powerful binaries, such nonhuman/human, men/women, English/Spanish, center/periphery, democracy/autocracy, reason/emotion, sciences/indigenous knowledges. But the interventions we devise are forever incomplete and far from successful. We are all invariably caught in institutional and political contexts that structure what we can accomplish and how within and beyond the classroom, which simultaneously provide surprising affordances for experimentation. In this panel, we invite you to reflect with us about how you have included (or could include) more feminist, decolonial pedagogy, perhaps through classroom experiments and interventions, while keeping in mind that we are all flawed, imperfect feminists and anti-racists, might understand decoloniality differently, and say dumb shit once in a while. We’ll go first.