The Funambulist #68 Masculinities And Coloniality

Welcome to the 68th issue of The Funambulist. In it, we examine the relationship between masculinities and coloniality—the latter term we use here to designate the racialization historically engineered by colonialism that remains active in post-colonial societies. Such an examination requires particular delicacy, as it demands finding the most apt and balanced framework to shape our politics. The first obvious pitfall we want to avoid applies a decontextualized, self-claimed “feminist” tunnel-visioned reading to specific colonial situations in which colonized men are particularly targeted by violence and subjugation. This reading resembles another disingenuous argument—that racialized communities exhibit greater gender homosociality and general patriarchy than dominant classes in society.