Tanjerine Vei is a PhD candidate in Education, Culture, and Society, and they received their MEd from the same program. Their research focuses on developing pedagogies that promote critical consciousness and healing, spiritual activism, and community building. A central focus of these pedagogical approaches is creating teaching and learning environments that take on a playful spirit that can facilitate dialogue across differences. Their dissertation is a critical, decolonial participatory action research (C/DPAR) project wherein the research conducted is in a community with those for whom the research is intended. In this project, a team of activist educators utilized queer phenomenology, spiritual activism, and decolonial ideologies to guide them in recreating educational practices in an ongoing process of studied change.