Carolyn Ureña is the Director of Academic Advising in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania, USA.Saiba Varma is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, San Diego, USA.

Decolonizing Bodies reveals both resilience and vulnerabilities of the sensuous bodies as the foundation of meaning, experience, and transformation. The rich collection of personal, scholarly, and artistic stories invites the readers to engage their own bodily awareness to sense and feel with the authors. The book is a call for reimagining the way we embody our communities and relationships through decolonial healing.

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionPart I: Decolonizing ResearchKali (tongues) by Bhasha Chakrabarti (2016-2020)Complex Connections: Coloniality, Embodiment, and Children of Color in the Archives – Isabelle Higgins, University of Cambridge, UKBurnout: A Queer Femme of Color Auto-Ethnography - Alexia Arani, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis ObispoPart II: Decolonizing CollectivesThe Intertwining I by Bhasha Chakrabarti (2022)Existing Beyond Time and Place: Understanding Queer Muslim Visibilities Online - Mardiya Siba YahayaDecolonized Bodies of Land and Children: Sarah Winnemucca’s Landback Project in Life Among the Piutes - Kristine A. Koyama, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USAEmbodying Azadi: Conscious and Unconscious Womanhood in Indian Occupied Kashmir - Inshah Malik, New Vision University, GeorgiaFragments Contain Worlds: Encounters Between Narrative Practice and Filmmaking - Xiaolu Wang & Poh Lin Lee, University of Melbourne, AustraliaPart III: Sovereignties, Autonomies, LiberationSowing Seeds by Bhasha Chakrabarti (2018)“Ele gosta do samba resguardo” (“He likes a rough samba”): Ceremonial Embodiments of Bahian Candomblé Caboclo – Mika Lior, York University, CanadaA Garden in a Lake of Im/Possibility – Saiba VarmaQuyca chiahac chixisqua (Sowing ourselves in the territory): Embodied Experiences of Indigenous Urban Gardens and the Coloniality of Nature - Andrea Sánchez-Castañeda (Florida International University, USA), Erika Nivia, and Jorge Yopasá (Muysca Indigenous community of Suba)Notes on Contributors

Carolyn Ureña is the Director of Academic Advising in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania, USA.Saiba Varma is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, San Diego, USA.

Decolonizing Bodies reveals both resilience and vulnerabilities of the sensuous bodies as the foundation of meaning, experience, and transformation. The rich collection of personal, scholarly, and artistic stories invites the readers to engage their own bodily awareness to sense and feel with the authors. The book is a call for reimagining the way we embody our communities and relationships through decolonial healing.

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionPart I: Decolonizing ResearchKali (tongues) by Bhasha Chakrabarti (2016-2020)Complex Connections: Coloniality, Embodiment, and Children of Color in the Archives – Isabelle Higgins, University of Cambridge, UKBurnout: A Queer Femme of Color Auto-Ethnography - Alexia Arani, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis ObispoPart II: Decolonizing CollectivesThe Intertwining I by Bhasha Chakrabarti (2022)Existing Beyond Time and Place: Understanding Queer Muslim Visibilities Online - Mardiya Siba YahayaDecolonized Bodies of Land and Children: Sarah Winnemucca’s Landback Project in Life Among the Piutes - Kristine A. Koyama, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USAEmbodying Azadi: Conscious and Unconscious Womanhood in Indian Occupied Kashmir - Inshah Malik, New Vision University, GeorgiaFragments Contain Worlds: Encounters Between Narrative Practice and Filmmaking - Xiaolu Wang & Poh Lin Lee, University of Melbourne, AustraliaPart III: Sovereignties, Autonomies, LiberationSowing Seeds by Bhasha Chakrabarti (2018)“Ele gosta do samba resguardo” (“He likes a rough samba”): Ceremonial Embodiments of Bahian Candomblé Caboclo – Mika Lior, York University, CanadaA Garden in a Lake of Im/Possibility – Saiba VarmaQuyca chiahac chixisqua (Sowing ourselves in the territory): Embodied Experiences of Indigenous Urban Gardens and the Coloniality of Nature - Andrea Sánchez-Castañeda (Florida International University, USA), Erika Nivia, and Jorge Yopasá (Muysca Indigenous community of Suba)Notes on Contributors

Carolyn Ureña is the Director of Academic Advising in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania, USA.Saiba Varma is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, San Diego, USA.

Decolonizing Bodies reveals both resilience and vulnerabilities of the sensuous bodies as the foundation of meaning, experience, and transformation. The rich collection of personal, scholarly, and artistic stories invites the readers to engage their own bodily awareness to sense and feel with the authors. The book is a call for reimagining the way we embody our communities and relationships through decolonial healing.

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionPart I: Decolonizing ResearchKali (tongues) by Bhasha Chakrabarti (2016-2020)Complex Connections: Coloniality, Embodiment, and Children of Color in the Archives – Isabelle Higgins, University of Cambridge, UKBurnout: A Queer Femme of Color Auto-Ethnography - Alexia Arani, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis ObispoPart II: Decolonizing CollectivesThe Intertwining I by Bhasha Chakrabarti (2022)Existing Beyond Time and Place: Understanding Queer Muslim Visibilities Online - Mardiya Siba YahayaDecolonized Bodies of Land and Children: Sarah Winnemucca’s Landback Project in Life Among the Piutes - Kristine A. Koyama, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USAEmbodying Azadi: Conscious and Unconscious Womanhood in Indian Occupied Kashmir - Inshah Malik, New Vision University, GeorgiaFragments Contain Worlds: Encounters Between Narrative Practice and Filmmaking - Xiaolu Wang & Poh Lin Lee, University of Melbourne, AustraliaPart III: Sovereignties, Autonomies, LiberationSowing Seeds by Bhasha Chakrabarti (2018)“Ele gosta do samba resguardo” (“He likes a rough samba”): Ceremonial Embodiments of Bahian Candomblé Caboclo – Mika Lior, York University, CanadaA Garden in a Lake of Im/Possibility – Saiba VarmaQuyca chiahac chixisqua (Sowing ourselves in the territory): Embodied Experiences of Indigenous Urban Gardens and the Coloniality of Nature - Andrea Sánchez-Castañeda (Florida International University, USA), Erika Nivia, and Jorge Yopasá (Muysca Indigenous community of Suba)Notes on Contributors