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I can't help it, a thread of the quotes by Maria Lugones that I have printed and framed on my bedroom walls (because I am *that* kind of nerd):
Rest in Power, guerrera
Rest in Power, guerrera
"This separation, this lack of love, I saw and I think that I saw correctly as a lack in myself (not a fault, but a lack). I also see that if this was a lack of love, love cannot be what I was taught. Love has to be rethought, made anew" ("Playfulness..." 1987, pp. 7)
Without each other, “we do not make sense, we are not solid, visible, integrated; we are lacking. So, travelling to each other's ‘worlds’ would enable us to be through loving each other" ("Playfulness..." 1987, pp. 8)
“there may be "worlds" that construct me in ways that I do not even understand. Or it may be that I understand the construction, but do not hold it of myself. I may not accept it as an account of myself, a construction of myself. And yet, I may be animating such a construction...
...One can "travel" between these "worlds" and one can inhabit more than one of these "worlds" at the very same time. I think that most of us who are outside the mainstream… are "world travelers" as a matter of necessity and of survival” ("Playfulness..." 1987, pp. 11)
“I am both and that I am different persons in different "worlds" and can remember myself in both as I am in the other. I am a plurality of selves” ("Playfulness..." 1987, pp. 14)
"The imposition of these dichotomous hierarchies became woven into the historicity of relations, including intimate relations....I want to figure out how to think about intimate, everyday resistant interactions to the colonial difference...
... When I think of intimacy here, I am not thinking exclusively or mainly about sexual relations the interwoven social life among people who are not acting as representatives or officials" ("Towards a Decolonial..." 2010, pp. 743)
"More contemporary analysis has introduced arguments for the claim that gender constructs sex. But in the earlier version, sex grounded gender. Often, they became conflated: where you see sex, you will see gender and vice versa. But if I am right about the coloniality of gender..
... in the distinction between the human and the non-human, sex had to stand alone. Gender and sex could not be both inseparably tied and racialized... sex was made to stand alone in the characterization of the colonized" ("Towards a Decolonial..." 2010, pp. 744)
"The colonial ‘‘civilizing mission’’ was the euphemistic mask of brutal access to people’s bodies through unimaginable exploitation, violent sexual violation, control of reproduction, and systematic terror...
... Turning the colonized into human beings was not a colonial goal. But turning the colonized against themselves was included in the civilizing mission’s repertoire of justifications for abuse" ("Towards a Decolonial..." 2010, pp. 745)
"Decolonizing gender is necessarily a praxical task. It is to enact a critique of racialized, colonial, and capitalist heterosexualist gender oppression as a lived transformation of the social" ("Towards a Decolonial..." 2010, pp. 747)
