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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.