Mobilising spaces of fugitive complaint within the neoliberal university

We reflect on a year-long series of experiments held in collaboration with doctoral researchers from minoritised backgrounds. These experiments included creative methods, zine-making and collective conversations, all of which constitute our co-theorisations of spaces of fugitive complaint. In this paper, we critically reflect on the use and value of these composite spaces, by thinking about how complaints are vocalised and are heard, and their fugitive possibilities. We centre not just listening but also grieving the university and reassembling ourselves in the wake of institutional violence. We argue that in conjunction, these three modes – listening, grieving, and recovering – are necessary to unsettle hierarchies of power within the university and speak to fugitive acts of imagining other liberatory worlds.