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Marlihan Lopez





Marlihan Lopez is a Black feminist memory worker and community organizer committed to unearthing, preserving, and honouring the cultural and epistemic productions Black women and gender-expansive people. Her work is rooted in Black feminist thought and speculative methodologies, as well as an abolitionist and decolonial praxis. She weaves together oral histories, critical archival research, and storytelling to challenge erasure and create spaces for communion and intergenerational knowledge transmission.

Drawing from Afro-Caribbean traditions of ancestral remembrance and knowledge-keeping, Marlihan scholarship and creative practice focuses on facilitating afro-diasporic reparations and pathways to healing from intergenerational trauma stemming from colonialism and white supremacy. She views embodied memory work as a form of maroonage, conjuring the spirits of her foremothers and envisioning liberatory futures.

Currently, a PhD student in the Individualized Program in Fine Arts at Concordia University, she’s also the Academic Advisor to the Women’s Studies and Black studies Programs at Concordia University where she contributes to Black Feminist programming and curriculum development. She is also the cofounder of Harambec, a Black Feminist organization in Montreal that bridges academia, community and the arts. Her work has been featured in peer- reviewed academic publications, as well as progressive, independent journals and digital platforms.     

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PhD Candidate,
Concordia University

marlihan.lopez@concordia.ca


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Book chapters

Almeida, Jade and Lopez, Marlihan. 2023. "Chapitre 10 Milieux de travail féministes: « safe space » pour les femmes noires?". Le futur de la diversité, Presses de l'Université du Québec, 2023, pp. 189-204. 

Almeida, J., & Lopez, M. 2021. Feminist workplaces: “safe spaces” for black women? In The future of diversity (pp. 171–185). ILO, 2021.

Lopez, Marlihan. 2025. “Sister Outsider: une réflexion sur mon parcours au sein du mouvementféministe québécois.” in Le sujet du féminisme est-il blanc? Deuxième édition, Montréal,éditions du remue-ménage, forthcoming Novembre 2025.

Other collaborations (Books)

Pierre, Alexandra. 2021. “Feminisme experientiel” In-depth interview with Marlihan Lopez in Empreintes de résistance. Filiations et récits de femmes autochtones et racisées. Montréal: les éditions du Remue-ménage.




Edited Collections

Lopez, Marlihan. 2024. “Quien nos protege de la policia en la lucha contra la violencia de género?”Afrocubanas La Revista, numero 13, agosto 2024, p. 6-12.

Lopez, Marlihan. « L’abolitionnisme carcéral est une lutte féministe. » À bâbord !, numéro 87, mars 2021, p. 55–57.

Batraville, Nathalie and Marlihan Lopez. "Définancer la police." À bâbord !, number 85, fall 2020, p. 18–19.

Essays and Public Writing

Lopez, Marlihan, Sandra Abd’Allah-Alvarez Ramírez. 2021. “Carceralidad y criminalización en Cuba.”November 12. 

Lopez, Marlihan. 2020. “Prison abolition is a feminist struggle.” CBC. November 23.

Lopez, Marlihan. 2017. “Enjeux et défis de l’appropriation de l’intersectionnalité au sein du mouvement des femmes du Québec.” Revue Droits et libertés, March.









 

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