WOMAN GO NO'GREE

Empires,by their very nature,embody and institutionalize difference,both between metropolis/colony and colonial subjects.Imperial imaginary floods popular culture.Gender categories were one kind of bio-logic "new tradition" that European colonialism institutionalized in Yoruba, Igbo as well as other African cultures. Infantilization of women as part of Western patriarchal system was also exported with the colonization of the mind,configuring a state of vulnerability,making the path of dependency propitious.Can we assume social relations in all societies are organized around biological sexual difference? How do new realities affect new understandings of kinship,marriage and family as a result of status,class,sexuality,geography? Erotic,sisterhood,motherhood,marriage,tradition, domestication…all this aspects,nuances,with it’s own lights and shades in each society,should come out in the same level in order to compare.Beauty circulates as a form of commodity with social,economic and cultural value.However these norms are often measured with Eurocentric values,white beauty narratives and ideals of beauty(thinnes,youth,..) being strongly racialized. Whiteness is reinforced at the same time as the norm,while "otherness" becomes fetish and something "exotic”. Decolonize feminism questioning the Eurocentric rational theoretical frameworks that construct gender categories in a universalistic manner. Stereotypes.