In her First Word “STEAMed Up: Or, A Defense of the Humanities Through African Art History,” Victoria Rovine (2016: 1) wrote,
Five years later, in the thick of a global pandemic, Angela Jansen, Erica de Greef, and Shayna Goncalves find themselves transgressing geographical, academic, institutional, age, race, and gender boundaries to convene, on the first Saturday of each month, the Conversations on Decoloniality and Fashion (de Greef, Goncalves, and Jansen 2021). Some of the people Rovine referenced in her First Word might reiterate their arguments toward decoloniality, as with humanities or African art, that decoloniality and fashion studies are “the exemplars of financially fruitless majors” (Rovine 2016: 1) or that majors in decoloniality or fashion studies will receive far fewer incentives than their engineering counterparts. These financial projections, however, may only serve colonial/modern assumptions of success and productivity. Rolando Vázquez, in the May 2021 session of...