Seeking Allies Within the Institutional Church: Reflections from South Africa on Partnership as Means to Unsettling Deadlocked Conflict?

One of the means that has long been proposed with regard to addressing the deadlocked conflict with regard to issues such as gender and sexuality, race and class has been to seek allies from the seemingly oppositional group in order to facilitate social change. Social movements have also made use of this approach over the years. In an era within which issues of race, class and gender are becoming seemingly more oppositional—due the re-emergence of right wing and fundamentalist discourse—this chapter seeks to explore the complexities and possible opportunities inherent in this approach from the perspective of a decolonial feminist lens.