Some excellent reading on heterosexism, gender and colonialism

I am so loving the e-resources available through York Libraries. I just learned of a new articles by Maria Lugones titled Heterosexualism and the Colonial/Modern Gender System (Hypatia 22:1, Winter 2007). Here's the link to the journal issue but you might have to search it out yourself by logging in to the library - which you can do from home, incidentally. If you have trouble finding it, let me know. I highly recommend Maria's work. She is a brilliant philosopher and activist. She co-founded a US-based popular education group called Escuela Popular Norteña after Myles Horton (founder of Highlander Education Center) suggested to her that there needed to be a Highlander-type organization in the American southwest. Maria is currently the director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Philosophy, Interpretation and Culture - CPIC. You can look at some of their other research groups here - one is "De-colonial Thinking."

In the same Hypatia issue mentioned above (the whole issue is on Writing Against Heterosexism) is also an article by Sarah Hoagland (a pioneer in lesbian feminist scholarship) titled Heterosexualism and White Supremacy. Both Sarah's and Maria's work has been deeply influential on my thinking and my own conception (and practice) of my self. I mentioned in class Maria's article Playfulness, "World"-Travelling, and Loving Perception, which I've long considered a virtual manifesto for working across difference. You'll find in in Hypatia 2:2 Summer 1987.