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Production has begun on the NSF funded film Decolonizing Science?, a feature-length documentary that will explore the creation and legacy of western science as it requires/d the critical erasure of other scientific methodologies, particularly of Indigenous, African/Black/Africanx (of the diaspora), and Hispanic, Latino/a/x peoples. The film will have a multi-pronged examination, which begins with the origins of western science as a product of colonization; an exploration of the ways in which western science is systematically centered, and how non-western traditional science, such as Traditional (Indigenous) Ecological Knowledge (TEK), African Indigenous methodologies and Latinx ways of questioning, naming, knowing, and conveying knowledge, have been delegitimized in predominantly white scientific spaces. The film addresses specific colonial legacies stemming from formal and informal scientific knowledge sites, such as museums and universities. The film concludes with a discussion on what it means to do de-colonial work, what it looks like, and what the ethical practices are as they are related to specific communities of color.

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