<p>The relationality of selfhood is a major theme of Gergen’s work. Relationality has colonial dimensions which have been identified in anti-colonial and queer theory. We propose to examine an important form of coloniality, what we call <i>mythical selves</i> that are alleged by dominant cultures to characterize minority or subjugated groups that have been implicated in material enterprises of colonization or exploitation. The most perennial dimension of exploitation is the patriarchal division of gendered labor that prioritizes (cisgender, heterosexual) men’s desires for sexual reproduction. This material ‘occupation’ of <i>bodies</i> corresponds with a <i>corporeal</i> coloniality, i.e., a coloniality of the body. The form of colonization most associated with the classical European-Atlantic period of colonialism is <i>spatial</i>, i.e., the occupation of indigenous land. We propose that the experience of spatial colonization by a group of people corresponds with a <i>temporal</i> coloniality: the cultural-symbolic consignment of a social identity to a particular imagined time. The other major form of colonization–exploitation is the occupation of disadvantaged group members’ <i>time</i>, i.e., their energy and labor. We propose that the experience of temporal exploitation by a group of people corresponds with a <i>spatial</i> coloniality: the cultural-symbolic association of a disadvantaged group with an ‘Other’ imagined geography, i.e., representative of or belonging to ‘exotic’ or ‘dangerous’ space beyond the ‘border.’</p>