In this article, I suggest opening out from the digital genealogies critical strands within
the Open Access (OA) movement usually associate themselves with: I propose a genealogy of
OA publishing that takes into consideration feminist and decolonial transnational publishing
initiatives that have been active in non-digital realms before, and in parallel to what these critical
strands have highlighted as their digital origins. The ways in which these pre-digital initiatives
organised and mobilised feminist and decolonial transnational struggle through publishing might
offer new insights for contemporary critical OA – specifically, with regards to questions around
how to confront uneven hierarchies of place in academia, while holding in tension their
intersectional character. By asking “what would the future of critical OA publishing look like, if
it BEGAN its formulation from the perspective of feminist, decolonial, anti-capitalist and
transnational organising?”, I would like to sketch critical OA as a practice that moves beyond a
liberal academic stance to actively develop a radical transnational and trans-epistemic ethic of
resistance against capitalist, colonialist, and patriarchal domination.