Lugones’s “Toward a Decolonial Feminism” argues that gender cannot be treated as a universal category simply added to race, class or colonial domination. Instead, she proposes the coloniality of gender as a framework for understanding how modern colonial power imposed a hierarchical, racialised and heterosexual gender system upon colonised peoples. Her central claim is that colonial modernity organised the world through dichotomous categories: human/non-human, man/woman, civilised/primitive, rational/bestial. Within this logic, European bourgeois men and women were positioned as properly gendered humans, while Indigenous peoples and enslaved Africans were cast as non-human, hypersexual, sinful or aberrant. Thus, colonised females were not recognised as “women” in the dominant colonial sense; the category “woman” itself was constructed through whiteness, bourgeois respectability and colonial civilisation. Lugones therefore criticises feminist universalism for erasing women of colour by assuming that gender is separable from race, coloniality and capitalism. Her decolonial feminism begins from resistance, not victimhood: colonised subjects inhabit a “fractured locus,” shaped by colonial imposition yet never fully exhausted by it. Resistance emerges in communal memory, alternative cosmologies, language, everyday practice and coalition across difference. The article’s conclusion is profoundly political: decolonising gender requires more than inclusion within existing feminist categories; it demands transforming the very colonial logic that made those categories appear natural.