Elizabeth Löwe Hunter

DECOLONIAL SOLIDARITIES - COLLECTIVE THINKING & COMMUNITY DINNER 20 MAY 16-20 @folketshuscph We will create a space to exchange expirences and think together. Its going to be 💜✨ Sign up via link in bio. Françoise Vergès writes on the racist fabrication of premature death, decolonial feminism, the impossible decolonization of the western museum, climate disaster and antiracist, anticapitalist politics of vital needs. She works with artists and curates, since 2015, public performances with artists and activists. For the 2025 Bannister Fletcher Fellowship, she organized workshops on “Imagining the Post-Museum,” with the Whitechapel Gallery, Mosaic Room and the Sarah Parker Remond Center for the Study of Racism and Racialization at UCL, London, and Cité internationale des arts and ULIP in Paris. Farhiya Khalid is a journalist and historian whose work centers on the living conditions and rights of refugees, migrants, and Muslims in an increasingly right-wing populist Denmark. She has written the afterword to the Danish edition of Françoise Vergés’ A Decolonial Feminism (2023), where she situates decolonial perspectives within contemporary Danish debates on racism, feminism, housing, and asylum policy. Elizabeth Löwe Hunter is an independent researcher, public speaker, and cultural analyst specializing in Afro-diasporic blackness, belonging, and representation in Denmark. She has taught and published about anti-colonial research methods and advises organizations on intersectional approaches. Elizabeth holds a PhD in African Diaspora Studies and Women, Gender, and Sexuality from the University of California, Berkeley. She is the winner of an Emma Goldman Award in 2026 for advancing feminist and inequality research in Europe. Sophia Wathne earned her PhD in political science and sociology through a Participatory Action Research project with the Kenyan Peasants League, which is part of La Vía Campesina. She is a decolonial feminist activist scholar and is part of Collective Against Environmental Racism, Copenhagen Food Cooperative, Frie Bønder – Levende Land, and Forum for Food Sovereignty.

💬 TRANSRACIAL INTIMACIES 💬 Join our conversation Wednesday May 20th, 12:00-13:30 CET/ 20:00-21:30 KST. 🆓 Registration link via FB event or link 👆🏾 ABOUT: 🔸What does it feel like to be raised in a white family in a white country for Black, brown and Indigenous people? How does having little to no racial mirroring impact your sense of self? And how do you construct an embodied, affirming and humanizing self-perception without a shared language for the specific experiences of transracial upbringings? 🔸In this conversation we explore questions about kinship, racialization, and developing a sense of self. Our questions arise from an observation that transracial experiences of racialization are often absent from critical discourses on racism. Furthermore, they are often constructed as separate, divided between regionally or racially specific fields of study. 🔸What could we learn if we shared vocabulary and resources across experiences of (surviving) transracial adoption and interracial, white family constellations? 🔸What insights can emerge from the intersection of Critical Adoption Studies, Black Studies, and Transnational Feminisms? 🔸Speakers: Amandine Gay and Seungmi Laura Cho Moderator: Elizabeth Löwe Hunter 🔸The webinar is part of the research project Transracial Intimacies: Exploring Racialization from within the Nordic Family. The project is a collaboration between Prof. Paola Bacchetta (Gender and Women’s Studies, UC Berkeley), Prof. Lene Myong (Centre for Gender Studies, University of Stavanger), and Dr. Elizabeth Löwe Hunter (independent researcher) and it is funded by a Peder Sather Grant.

Decolonial Solidarities 💜✨ May 20th, we invite you to a space for collective thinking at Folkets Hus. @folketshuscph Activists and critical thinkers from across movements will gather to speak with decolonial feminist thinker and activist Françoise Vergès @francoise_verges_decoloniale about strategies and solidarity. We will create a space to exchange experiences and think together. Wednesday, May 20th 16:00 - 18:00. Community dinner afterwards. Folkets Hus, first floor. This event is for those already engaged in activist work who want to connect, build relationships, and think together. If you cannot join on the 20th, it is also possible to hear Françoise Vergès speak in a more theoretical context at KUA the following day. To get a feeling of how many we are going to be, and how much food to cook, we ask you to sign up for the event at this link in bio: aleatorik.dk/tilmelding Organised by @forlagetaleatorik @lab_aesthetics_and_ecology , and @detlillarum Supported by @snabslanten Graphic Art : @carlarafaellla_denalie

I received an Emma Goldman Award! …for advancing feminist and inequality research in Europe. I am truly humbled and grateful. Being associated with such brilliant, ambitious and kind people is a deep honor. The last decade has been filled with incredibly hard work. And the past 2-3 years, since earning my PhD, have been especially challenging and hopeless at times. This recognition of my work affirms that it matters and someone out there sees what I am trying to do. If you don’t see me in the group photo it is because I gave a public talk about my work in Copenhagen and flew straight to Vienna afterwards. My ceremony was then entering a room full of extremely smart people applauding me and Mieke Verloo awarding me on the spot - before I even got my coat off. A very grand, Leo entrance ✨ Thank you! Congratulations to all the Emma Goldman awardees and the Emma Goldman Snowball awardees of 2026. I’m in awe of you. 📸 by Klaus Ranger

Who defines what counts as ‘color’? Who defines the background? I first saw the art work by Glenn Ligon at MoMA in New York in 2012, I think, with my two sisters. The quote immediately resonated with me – an excerpt from Zora Neale Hurston’s essay How It Feels To Be Colored Me from 1928. Her words have stayed with me ever since. I have used the art piece and the point Hurston is making here in many educational contexts, because I think it is so clear. Naming the background, the invisibilized norm, is a reminder that this is not what always defines her, nor is it universal. White is not neutral, it was not her norm. Zora Neale Hurston grew up in an all Black town in the US-American South. She knew herself simply to be a person (well, a person gendered as woman) and part of the unspoken racial norm. Not until she began interacting with white Americans was she defined by their racialization of her, against their norm. But their gaze was not her center. How could it feel to be you outside of relations to whiteness and the colonialist gaze? ⚠️🧑🏾‍🏫 “Colored” was the term for Black Americans at the time (1928). We do NOT use that anymore in that context. The terms “people of color” and “colored people” are very distinct!

NY PUBLICERING / NEW PUBLICATION Det nye Kvinder, Køn og Forskning er ude med fokus på DEKOLONISERING, ledt af chefredaktører Naja Dyrendom Graugaard og Rieke Schröder og et kompetent hold af medredaktører og peer-reviewers. Tak til Julia Suárez-Krabbe for et positivt og omsorgsfuldt samarbejde om de sidste rettelser. Det er længe siden jeg har været så stolt og glad over hvem jeg bliver sat i selskab med. Nummeret er fuld af venner, kollegaer og helte. Kan ikke vente med at dykke ned i det. Læs hele nummeret på KKF’s hjemmeside og del vidt og bredt! https://tidsskrift.dk/KKF Forsidekunst: ©️Julie Edel Hardenberg @julieedelhardenberg ✨ The Danish journal Women, Gender and Research has a new special issue on DECOLONISATIO led by editors-in-chief Naja Dyrendom Graugaard @littlesistoelderbrother og Rieke Schröder @rieke_schroeder and a compentent team of co-editors and peer-reviewers. A special thanks to Julia Suárez-Krabbe for a positive and caring collaboration around the last edits. I am rarely this proud and happy about who I am associated with. This publication is full of contributions from friends, colleagues and heroes. I can’t wait to dive into it! Access the full issue and share widely! Articles in multiple languages. https://tidsskrift.dk/KKF Cover art: ©️Julie Edel Hardenberg� @julieedelhardenberg

Intersektionalitet er ikke et begreb om vilkårlige og udskiftelige undertrykkelsesakser. Det er sort feministisk teori 🖤 Fun fact: when I was in my BA program at a Danish university, they taught us that some white Danish academic coined the term intersectionality! I think it’s for the best that I don’t remember either the professor or the scholar they claimed to be the originator. Colonizers will be colonizing. Happy Monday! Udsnit fra: Hunter, Elizabeth Löwe. “Anmeldelse af Kvinder, race og klasse af Angela Y. Davis”, oversat af Mikas Lang (2022). I: Magasinet Eftertryk, Jan. 2023. Link i min info👆🏾 Noter: 1. Crenshaw, Kimberlé. 1989. “Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics.” University of Chicago Legal Forum 1989 (1): 139–65. 2. Hill Collins, Patricia. 2014. Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment. Second Edition. New York and London: Routledge. 3. Bilge, Sirma. 2014. “Whitening Intersectionality. Evanescence of Race in Intersectionality Scholarship.” In Racism and Sociology, edited by Wulf D. Hund and Alana Lentin. LIT Verlag Münster.

NYT KAPITEL 💫🌱🇩🇰🌍 Efter 12 år i udlandet (FR/USA) er jeg for nyligt flyttet til Kbh‼️ Det er der mange forskellige grunde til. Én er, at mit arbejde hører til i Europa og skal udfoldes i fællesskab hér. Så jeg glæder mig til at mødes med både nye og gamle venner og netværk for at nørde og skabe det, vi har brug for. Både i DK, i Norden og i Europa mere generelt. Jeg drømmer om (og arbejder på og søger midler til): - At oversætte mine yndlingsbøger og dokumentarer til dansk - Skrive min egen bog - Lave min dokumentarfilm - Lave små og store arrangementer, medier osv. for videndeling og læring Jeg er også åben for arbejde (fuldtid/deltid/kontrakt) fx som - Forsker (især kvalitative metoder, men har også erfaring med kvant.) - Konsulent (data, kultur, racialisering, fondssøgning, rapporter etc.) - Oplægsholder/paneldeltager (nordisk exceptionalisme, hvid uskyld, (sort) racial isolation, tilhørsforhold, intersektionalitet mm.) - Gæsteforelæser (dekolonialitet, køn, racialisering, sort feminisme, repræsentation, metode, mm) - Uafhængig akademisk vejleder (Phd/MA/BA) Ræk ud hvis du har ressourcer eller vil lave noget sammen, så kan vi se om vi er på linje ✨📚✊🏾 Vi ses ✌🏽 ~ Elizabeth Löwe Hunter Phd i African Diaspora Studies (nej, ikke Afrikastudier!), med specialisering i Women, Gender and Sexuality. Kontakt og info: https://linktr.ee/LoweHunter Ja, billedet er fra Oakland, hvor jeg stadig er in spirit 🥲☀️🎥 @gavinanthonydesigns

Togetherness => Consciousness 🌱🌿 This entire book is both vast and deep. This last part is soft and holistic and has been very influential in my thinking. It’s about togetherness, community, and personal integration as antidotes to colonialist seperation, splitting, compartmentalization, and hierarchization of selves, others, and the world. Alexander, M. Jacqui. 2005. Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the Sacred. Perverse Modernities. Durham [N.C.]: Duke University Press. This quote is from Ch. 6 “Remembering This Bridge Called My Back, Remembering Ourselves” in Part III: Dangerous Memory: Secular Acts, Sacred Possession, page 283. Absolute 🔥

[NOUVEL ÉPISODE] 🔥🔥🔥 On se demande souvent comment les personnes noires d’ailleurs en Europe se vivent, s’énoncent et Cases Rebelles nous a régulièrement permis d’aller à la rencontre d'autres communautés afropéennes. Si se connecter aux noir.es de tous ces pays d’Europe, avec leurs histoires particulières, leurs luttes, leurs questions, leurs mots nous importe au plus haut point, nous avons avec certains pays un lien plus personnel parce que des proches y vivent. Si vous avez lu notre livre "Le Feu qui craque" vous savez que Le Danemark en fait partie. Nous n’avions pourtant jamais parlé dans notre podcast des réalités raciales de ce pays dont le vernis progressiste s’effrite, depuis notamment le déploiement de politiques migratoires agressives et de très réactionnaires “lois ghettos”. Ce représentant du modèle scandinave a d’ailleurs souvent été considéré à tort comme étant dépourvu de véritable passé colonial. Alors, notre joie est grande parce que notre chemin croise aujourd’hui celui d’Elizabeth Löwe Hunter @dr.e_hunter , chercheuse indépendante, afroféministe, analyste décoloniale, et autrice de "L'isolement racial des Noir·es : comprendre la subjectivité de la diaspora africaine dans le Danemark post-racial” (à lire ici : Black Racial Isolation: Understanding African Diaspora Subjectivity in Post-Racial Denmark), une passionnante réflexion philosophique, sociologique et historique réalisée pour son doctorat, achevé en 2023. Des afrodescendant·es venu·es des Caraïbes aux Brown babies adopté·es venu·es d’Allemagne, jusqu’à la diversité de plusieurs générations nées au Danemark, Elizabeth analyse avec beaucoup de finesse la construction kaléidoscopique d’identités noires dans un pays qui croit à son exceptionnalité. Pour ce 110ème épisode, nous parlons avec elle de sa recherche, de l’histoire de Victor Cornelins - un danois noir né fin 19ème à Sainte Croix dans les Caraïbes -, du moment Black Lives Matter en 2020, et de ce que cette recherche à propos des expériences de personnes noires du Danemark a mis en lumière pour elle. On envoie force et amour à Elizabeth. Et pour écouter -> /episode-n110/ ou en linktree 🖤🖤🖤

Barbara Christian was a Caribbean American author, educator, and feminist critic. She was the first Black woman to be granted tenure at UC Berkeley, in 1978. She later became the first Black woman to be promoted to full professor (1986). Along with June Jordan, she held a special place among Black Studies scholars at UC Berkeley, when I was there, and this specific quote circulated heavily. It still resonates deeply and literally with me. Barbara Christian – like too many of her contemporaries – also remind us that this iteration of Western societies (including the University) has not yet stopped extracting, harming, and k!ll!ng Black women. Specifically those who care deeply. Barbara Christian was born on Dec. 12, 1943 in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands and died on June 25, 2000 in Berkeley, California. References: Barbara Christian. 1987. “The Race for Theory.” Other: UC Berkeley & Britannica.com

“…black aesthetics without black people.” 📚“White Negroes” by Lauren Michele Jackson was the first non-fiction I read cover to cover after only novels for about a year after grad school. She’s a phenomenal writer and makes it an easy read with her smart wit. 📚Getting back into dancing during and after becoming an PhD had me seek out this book. I needed to engage with something that could anti-gaslight me, because what I was experiencing was wild to me, yet entirely unacknowledged in the “apolitical” dance spaces. Through my sociological lens, the everyday relations of blackness, gender, sexuality, and the coloniality of it all, became crystal clear. And maddening. 📚In dance—specifically Black and African diasporic partner dances—our bodies are our instruments and points of connection. In interracial contexts, racism and sexism is front and center. Envy and objectification coexisting with rejection and erasure. Black aesthetics without Black people. Everybody wanting to be a N without really wanting to be a N. Them wanting our rhythm but not our blues. Etc etc etc. Or, as my wise friend said, just another day under colonialism / yt süpr3macy. A warm recommendation! 📚Lauren Michele Jackson. 2019. WHITE NEGROES When Cornrows Were in Vogue and Other Thoughts on Cultural Appropriation. Beacon Press, Boston.