colonialism

And so, in order to resist the patriarchy, we must also unpack the legacy of colonialism.

And this is something really important about colonialism: Colonialism did not just shape norms and ideas in colonized communities; it also exposed colonizers to many different ways of being human and organizing human power structures.

She argued that our modern ideas of gender emerged during and as a result of European colonialism — pointing to Indigenous communities that related to gender in more nuanced ways.