#resist (the temptation to splurge when designer yoga pants go on sale)
I know what the words “decolonizing” and “gender” mean, but what do they mean together? How has gender been colonized? Does decolonized not mean “negating effects of colonization (imperialism)” anymore? And if it is about negating the gender roles that come into effect due to imperialism (ie: men aggressive, women subservient), what does that have to do with yoga pants?
in this case, decolonizing gender means poc wearing our expensive woke yoga pants
Ignoring that this instance is just recuperation, if de-colonization isn’t being used to literally mean indigenous self-rule, then it’s being used in a critical theory way, like undoing the Eurocentrist way that all of modern global society is understood and organized.
De-colonizing gender would not JUST be academic examination of non-European cultures’ understanding of gender, (common examples being two-spirit and hijra). Previous interest in non-European culture has been various flavours of condescending and more about cataloguing for historical interest. “De-colonizing” a subject means treating the non-European body of work on it as equally valid and not “good anywhere it doesn’t conflict with the European canon”.
