"Ellen’s journey to 'explore what it means to be lesbian, gay, bi, or trans' is in fact a journey to impose what it means, then call that meaning 'evidence' in order to affirm a more palatable political ordering."
colonialism
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"Yoga has been completely stripped of its power, strength, and glaring Indianness, repackaged into a symbol of contemptible, weak, nonthreatening, submissiveness: exactly what a colonial power looks for in a colony."...
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"Spices (and other materials) have always been front and centre in the colonial machine. To say Western Cuisine incorporating flavour notes of other cuisines is merely 'an exchange of cultures' is reductive and erasing."...