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-Bhambra points out that both the postcolonial and the decolonial are concerned with the troubling notion of 'modernity', or, to be precise, with the way the West imposed a 'universal' model of 'modernity' on other parts of the world through imperial invasion and colonial governance.
-The point of decolonising for me is to never see them as isolated incidents that happened in a vacuum or only concern some of us. Instead, it is imperative to understand them as reflective of the way all our histories (histories of colonisation, gender oppression, social class exploitation, etc.) are yoked together and affect each other in the present moment. The important thing to do is to build solidarities and communicate with each other as much and as truthfully as possible, because as Asian American Studies scholar Jennifer Ho (2020) says powerfully: 'anti-racism requires all of us to be in this together'.
-In a post-modern system of commodification, any signature style must be reproduced until its novelty is exhausted.