“…Influenced by decolonial and postcolonial authors, some Brazilian scholars from the areas of Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, and Literature have been reflecting on the need to search for epistemic diversity (Borelli, 2018;Carbonieri, 2016aCarbonieri, , 2016bJordão, 2014Jordão, , 2016Fabrício, 2017;Pessoa and Hoelzle, 2017;Severo, 2017;Silvestre, 2016;Zolin-Vesz, 2016), as hierarchies are still very strong in our field. For example, in the area of Teacher Education, hierarchy exists between university profes-sors ("who have scientific knowledge") and student teachers ("who, at best, have common sense"), and between university professors and school teachers ("who have practical knowledge"); in the area of Language Teaching, between teachers and students, native speakers and non-native speakers, standard language and other "varieties", center-based methods and local methods, center-produced materials and local material; and in the area of Literature, between the Western literary canon and marginalized writing.…”