Solidarity in multiple registers

Abstract

Abstract This coauthored article is about building solidarity on Canadian university campuses. We construct a narrative in two registers—one justified left, one justified right—that traces our activism within and beyond the university and how our own solidarity has grown over time and informs our current research collaboration. On the one (left) hand, we describe how we as colleagues, comrades, and friends have come to work together in a shared political project across differences. On the other, we discuss how we have designed and are conducting our research. This polyvocal narration—collaborative, shifting between genres—enacts a radical Black feminist praxis, which informs both our decade-long collaboration and also the principles of the research project we have developed to examine Black student activism and coalition building. We close the article with a reflection on how graduate student researchers are collaborating on the project, their insights, and reflections they have shared with us.