We started this project as a collective enterprise. Íkala invited Carmen Helena, a Colombian ELT teacher educator and researcher, to organize a special volume on decoloniality and ELT. Having a decolonial mind, Carmen Helena could not do it single-hand-edly and in Colombia alone. She remembered that Clarissa, from Brazil, was also working on decoloniality from within ELT, and pro-ceeded to invite her as a co-organizer. Clarissa immediately accepted the invitation and suggested Gabriela to integrate the group. As an Argentinian scholar, expert on decolonial political theory, and a journalist living in the us, Gabriela would contribute with a third take on decoloniality from outside ELT per se, but dealing with the perks and benefits of being/acting within English inside and out-side academia. Gabriela also accepted the invitation and now, here we are.