Language is one of the most complex forms of subjugation, being at the same time the locus of power and unconscious servility. With each sign that gives language its shape lies a stereotype of which I/i am both the manipulator and the manipulated.

— Trinh T. Minh-ha Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism (1989)

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