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Feminist scholarship and activism informs Dr. Lavoie’s decolonizing and healing knowledge, bodies, and land framework. Feminist political ecology (FPE) shares the goals of decolonial, critical race, and Indigenous scholarship that aim for social and environmental justice and dismantling systems of oppression. Drawing from decolonial scholars of color, there is a common thread of colonial violence to knowledge, bodies and land (knowledge-body-land) which Dr. Lavoie proposes as a decolonizing and healing framework. This work responds to feminist calls for solidarity and a decolonial turn in our research and practice. The framing helps bridge epistemologies, scholars, and disciplines in resistance to the ongoing colonial, racialized, and gendered violences that shape the politics of human-environment relations and our disciplines. The diagram below is intended to depict the inseparability of knowledge-body-land, and cosmologies and spirit, and space and time, which necessitates healing because of colonial harm and disruption.