Reflections on decoloniality and intersectionality: a conversation with Avtar Brah

This interview with Avtar Brah explores her significant contributions to feminist, postcolonial, and decolonial thought, with a particular focus on her latest book, Decolonial Imaginings: Intersectional Conversations and Contestations (2022). Brah discusses key concepts, including intersectionality, diaspora, the politics of location, and the ethics of interconnectivity. She elaborates on how intersectionality functions not simply as a framework for mapping identities but as an analysis of power, embodiment, and epistemic resistance. The conversation foregrounds how Brah links intersectionality with decoloniality to challenge colonial legacies and racial capitalism, especially in relation to citizenship, human rights, and feminist praxis. Drawing from her long-standing engagement with Black feminism and postcolonial struggles, Brah theorizes difference and solidarity across axes such as race, class, gender, sexuality, and migration. Through discussion of borders, belonging, and embodied experience, this interview highlights Brah’s impact on diaspora, decolonial, and feminist studies as well as her advocacy of transformative, relational justice.