(Re)Colonizing Black Canadian Women & Routes to ResistanceThis paper is concerned with the social productions of otherness in Canada, the experiences of Black women through a history of domination, and Black women's agency. Black women have been subject to White gazes and face condemnation because of the colour of their skin from the time of slavery until present day. However, the specificity of Aboriginal and Black women's embodied experiences of colonialism, racism, sexism and in/visibility have not typically been the focal point of academic discourse and liberation theorists--primarily, of whom are male and White women. In effect, much of Black and Aboriginal women's experiences have been made invisible or systemically erased. In "Contingent Foundations: Feminism and the Question of 'Postmodernism'", Judith Butler (1992) draws on the work of Joan Scott who asserts that "once it is understood that subjects are formed through exclusionary operations, it becomes politically necessary to trace the operations of that construction and erasure" (p. 3). Therefore, in this paper, I observe how Black women's herstory intersects in similar yet distinct ways from that of Aboriginal and other racialized women who are colonized, thereby rendering them geographically, linguistically, socially, politically and culturally in/visible (Lawrence & Dua, 2011; Yeh, 2007). In addition, this paper locates Black Canadian women as having agency--that is, as historical actors and knowledge producers, through mediums selected by Black women themselves, notwithstanding a social context that defines them as implicitly marginal. My objective is to answer two key questions: What is the impact of colonization on Black women? What routes do Black women take to resist (re)colonization? I build my arguments on the theoretical foundations of anticolonial, anti-racism and African Canadian feminist discourses. These frameworks challenge the institutional powers and structures established by and maintained through colonialism, with a divergent privileging of the expertise of Black women instead. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]