Sandoval's article 'Dissident Globalizations' brings up the idea of dissident globalization to combat neoliberalism. Sandoval writes that post-modern globalization is a neo-colonizing force, and that combatting it requires more than creating separatist strategies which only hit at one part of the problem. With this, Sandoval introduces 3rd world consciousness feminism, which unites all people who experience oppression against dominating powers. This includes women, Chicanx people, African Americans, Latinx, Asian Americans and more. It uses the idea of a ‘borderlands consciousness’, which means people who experience living between structures of race, gender, culture and language, to unite people against neo-colonization. Sandoval writes that "dissident globalization depends on the activism of an internationalist citizen warrior", which is all the people who identify as being part of a group against the dominating colonizer. Differential consciousness allows differences in ideologies, and uses those differences to an advantage, finding similarities within those to combine and relate experiences. It doesn't enforce just one ideology, but rather allows for the centering and re-centering of many different ones.
This idea of differential consciousness and dissident globalization is embodied in Womxn Who Rock because these are women of a minority group experiencing a form of colonialism. These women are not all from the culture, race, or even gender identity, and yet they are all united through their desire of self-expression through music, particularly rock. They are going against the stereotype of rock as a form of expression for white men and using it to strengthen their ideas and movements against colonialism by mainly white men. It's harnessing the core idea of dissident colonialism, to use differences to an advantage.
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