In previous texts, the author, Lugones “proposed to read the relation between the colonizer and the colonized in terms of gender, race, and sexuality. By this [the author] did not mean to add a gendered reading and a racial reading to the already understood colonial relations. Rather [Lugones] proposed a rereading of modern capitalist colonial modernity itself. This is because the colonial imposition of gender cuts across questions of ecology, economics, government, relations with the spirit world, and knowledge, as well as across everyday practices that either habituate us to take care of the world or to destroy it. [Lugones] proposes this framework not as an abstraction from lived experience, but as a lens that enables us to see what is hidden from our understandings of both race and gender and the relation of each to normative heterosexuality.”