May 13, 2014
"I think it is important not to have a binary analysis of binaries. The presumption that binarism is bad and hybridity good often works against indigenous interests. Hence, in the case of queer of color critique, the subjectless critique actually relies on a “mixed” or “hybrid” subject who is positioned against the Native foil...Since not all peoples are in a postcolonial relationship vis-à-vis the state, a binary analysis of the colonizer and colonized can sometimes be helpful in highlighting the current conditions of settler colonialism that continue to exist today both in the United States and in the rest of the world."
Andrea Smith, "Queer Theory and Native Studies: The Heteronormativity of Settler Colonialism