About
The Transformative Pedagogies Lab launched in 2025 and is a research space for the collaborative development and dissemination of scholarship and popular education tools on gender and sexuality pedagogies. Centering intersectionality, solidarity, and transformative justice, our projects aim to change the conditions, norms, and systems that reinforce violence, oppression, and injustice by building collective capacity for transformation.
Natalie Kouri-Towe
Associate Professor, Simone de Beauvoir Institute
Concordia University
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Territorial Acknowledgement
The Transformative Pedagogies Lab is based in Montreal/Tiohtià:ke on the unceded lands of the Kanien’kehá:ka Nation, who are recognized as the custodians of the lands and waters of this territory. Anchored in reflexivity and solidarity, acknowledgement is part of holding our work and our institutions accountable for the legacy of education’s role in settler colonialism. Education, teaching, and learning hold great potential for transforming ourselves and our communities; yet they are also vulnerable to the conscription of hegemonic and colonial systems that aim to extract and capture knowledge, land, resources, and all forms of life. Learning alongside Indigenous pedagogies, the Transformative Pedagogies Lab holds responsibility for our commitment to being in relation with Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples who are visitors—whether through enslavement and indentureship, forced migration, or economic or colonial settlement—through recognition, reciprocity, decolonization, and supporting Indigenous sovereignty and resurgence.
References
- Kauanui, J. Kēhaulani. 2021. The Politics of Indigeneity, Anarchist Praxis, and Decolonization. Anarchist Developments in Cultural Studies. 1: 9-42.
- Stewart-Ambo, Theresa, and Yang K. Wayne. 2021. “Beyond Land Acknowledgment in Settler Institutions” Social Text 39 (1): 21–46.
- Vowel, Chelsea. 2024. “Revisiting ‘Beyond Territorial Acknowledgements’” In âpihtawikosisân: language, law, culture. November 21.