Another World

Abstract

In this commentary, I draw upon my work as activist and facilitator of transformLAB, a participatory zine-making workshop hosted online with transformation agents from the University of Cape Town (UCT). TransformLAB brought together a group of 16 transformation agents to dream about queer, decolonial, feminist and anti-racist alternatives in higher education. The intervention was hosted over a four-month period and culminated in the development of a zine. Artworks from the zine are curated in this commentary and offer an uncensored and alternate vision for furthering transformation, diversity and inclusion (TDI) at UCT and beyond. This commentary will draw on first-person reflections by the facilitator of transformLAB, artworks from the zine and participant voices to share some of the journey of this intervention. In doing so, this commentary explores the radical potential a dreaming exercise, such as transformLAB, can offer for TDI work in South African higher education.