Criminalization of her sexuality [as a lesbian] in both [her native] Trinidad and the United States informs [M. Jacqui] Alexander's understanding of "the heterosexual imperative of citizenship" (Alexander 1994, 6). She reads the national criminalization of "sex that is non-productive of babies and of no economic gain" through the Eurocentric equation of "development" with valuing production and profit-accumulation over a people's right to self-determination (6). Alexander underlines how postcolonial leaders who forfeit nationalist promises of self-determination in exchange for managing the neoliberal project give in to this colonial logic (Alexander 2005, 182). As they suffer economic subordination to multinational corporations based in their former colonizer nations, these neocolonial state leaders legislate heteropatriarchy to recuperate authority over their nation's "development."

-- Shireen Roshanravan, "Motivating Coalition: Women of Color and Epistemic Disobedience", 45

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