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Global Feminist Selves - Coggle Diagram

- - - - The Ada demonstrates a deconstructing of typical gender binaries as she is receiving gender affirmation surgery typically associated with masculinization and defimininity, but is using that surgery as a way to feel comfortable wearing clothing typically associated with femininity. This is where the confusion of the Ada's friends comes in, as they had assumed her breast reduction was just in the pursuit of masculinization
  - - - Ada has compartmentalized herself into these other "beings" in order to cope with her trauma. She thinks of herself as no longer belonging to her and she gives herself over them to escape the pain of her past.
- - - - Nadir's struggles with their gender throughout The Thirty Names of Night is emblematic of shapeshifting as well as transitions. Through the novel Nadir is in a period of transition, as he fully comes into his identity. Nadir's gender journey also relates to shapeshifting, as he refers to himself several times as something other than binary gender and other than human.
  - - - After coming to America, Laila's connection to birds changes in that they now represent her and her 'rareness' in a western world. She looks to birds to remind her of the beauty and stories from her country in a world that doesn't accept her.
- - - - "‘About that one we don’t even speak. It’s speaking for itself. Both of them, it’s the Englishness. It’s a wonder it hasn’t affected the parents too.’ She went on like this for quite a while, going on about how you couldn’t expect the ancestors to stomach so much Englishness. She didn’t mention Nhamo, but I was beginning to follow her trend of thought. I knew she was thinking about him and I could see she considered me a victim too: ‘The problem is the Englishness, so you just be careful!’"
        Dangarembga, Tsitsi. Nervous Conditions (Nervous Conditions Series) (p. 297). Graywolf Press. Kindle Edition.
        
        "'When I was in England I glimpsed for a little while the things I could have been, the things I could have done if - if - if things were - different . . . And does anyone realize, does anyone appriciate, what sacrifices were Mae? As for me, no one even thinks about the things I gave up . . . But that's how it goes Siri Tambu! And when you have a good man and lovely children, it makes it all with while,'" (153).
        Dangarembga, Tsitsi. Nervous Conditions
        
        In this moment Maiguru discusses her realization that, even in her life improving in economic station, her life is still being adversely impacted due to her being a woman.
        
        " . . . not white enough nor black enough; distrusted by African Americans, ignored by whites unless we're being used by whites to keep the black man down,'" (9).
        Park Hong, Cathy. Minor Feelings
        
        Colonialism and white supremacy are intrinsically linked. They feed on each other to maintain the structure of power, specifically the on in which white people are dominant and other races are not. This often causes white people to pit marginalized racial groups against each other.
        
        Colonized peoples live with the reality of the culture of their colonizers altering the culture in which they live, impacting day to day life and being more ingrained in each generation following the colonization's beginning. This can impact mental health as one culture takes dominance over another.
      - The US-Mexico border, as a vehicle of colonialism, has split a people apart
        
        “A border is a dividing line, a narrow strip along a steep edge. A borderland is a vague and undetermined place created by the emotional residue of an unnatural boundary.”
        Anzaldúa, Gloria. Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza. (p. 14). Aunt Lute Books. Kindle Edition.
- - - - This represented a shift in the way Tambu viewed the men in her life in relation to their treatment of women. It serves as a turning point in her idolization of Babamaguru, as she sees him as less of a hero and more of a victim of colonization himself.