Chapter 11: Experimenting with Fugitive Practices: Gesturing Toward Decolonial Futures

This chapter invites readers to engage in creative experimentation with fugitive practices for inclusion, diversity, equity. and access (IDEA). The author draws upon more than 50 years of experience with IDEA projects and utilizes critical autoethnographic reflections to illuminate five examples for how fugitivity can generate freedom of full self-expression and access ways of being and acting beyond the valorized singular genre of being human that we inherit within Modernity (Cartesian subjectivity and the system of White supremacy). For human life to survive climate catastrophe, we must generate ways of being and acting beyond the prioritizing of progress and profit within predatory and racialized capitalism, ways of being and acting for climate justice that will prioritize all forms of life, including our living planet.