Lara brings up the concept of body-land which emphasizes that bodies are built from nature and therefore are not separate from it. In an excerpt at the beginning of the chapter Cherríe Moraga describes land as “the common ground for all radical action.”(Lara 61) and mentions the body as land for action. From this viewpoint, Lara examines how Christian Colonialism inherently harms people by influencing land, such as emphasis on the Dominican-Haitian border fueling ultra-nationalism and anti-Haitianism. I see the body-land concept also as a counter to the idea of dominion which claims people as superior to nature and justified to control it. This thought was used to justify colonialism and had heavy influence from Christianity as Europeans viewed that God gave man control over the earth and use of all resources. This idea of control continues to harm both land exploited to fuel the global economy built off of colonization and postcolonialism and people who occupy or were dislocated from the land. Eurochristian control was also put directly on people through “The reification and instantiation of gender binaries, racial hierarchies, and heteronormativity,”(Lara 68) which are still in place after most countries have gained independence, showing how colonialism is inseparable from the systems and states which act against Black, Indigenous, and Queer people.