Analyses on the Colonial Gender System

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A collection of academic articles examining colonization’s role in erecting a gender system that futher legitimizes whiteness and capitalism at the expense of nonwhite people and our cultures

Colonialism, Two-Spirit Identity, and the Logistics of White Supremacy by Phoenix Singer

Binarism: Myths and Reality, a great piece on binarism’s relationship with colonialism and white nonbinary trivialization of the concept  by b. binaohan [updated link 9/5/2015]

On Nonbinary ”Invisibility”, a piece on white nonbinary appeals to being visible to power at the expense of genders that are specific to Indigenous and/or People of Color by b. binaohan [updated link 9/5/2015]

Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism by Patricia Hill Collins [updated link]

Women and Men, Cloth and Colonization: The Transformation of Production-Distribution Relations among the Baule (Ivory Coast) (Femmes et hommes, pagnes et colonisation: la transformation des relations de production et de distribution chez les Baule de Côte d’Ivoire) by Mona Etienne

The Coloniality of Gender by Maria Lugones

Heterosexualism and the Modern/Colonial Gender System by Maria Lugones

Racist sexualisation and sexualised racism in narratives on apartheid by Tamara Shefer & Kopano Ratele

Sexuality as constitutive of whiteness by Kopano Ratele

Masculinities without tradition by Kopano Ratele

Rape as a weapon of hate: Discursive constructions and material consequences of black lesbianism in South Africa by Megan E. Morrissey

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