Quotes from Chandra Talpade Mohanty

Each of us carries around those growing up places, the institutions, a sort of backdrop, a stage set. So often we act out the present against the backdrop of the past, within a frame of perception that is so familiar, so safe that is is terrifying to risk changing it even when we know our perceptions are distorted, limited, constricted by that old view.

Our minds must be as ready to move as capital is, to trace its paths and to imagine alternative destinations.

The practice of solidarity foregrounds communities of people who have chosen to work and fight together. Reflective solidarity is crafted by an interaction involving three persons: 'I ask you to stand by me over and against a third.

protocapitalist) feminism concerned with "women's advancement" up the corporate and nation-state ladder. This is a feminism that focuses on financial "equality" between

Failure to critique US empire allows feminist projects to be used and mobilized as handmaidens in the imperial project.