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This chapter begins with some critiques about the illusions of inclusion in digital spaces, adapted from a two-part article that I wrote with Shyam Sharma for Hybrid Pedagogy using a postcolonial perspective, and then moves on to a more focused account of possibilities of creating more open and inclusive spaces and networks, subverting existing digital power structures based on some open online work one or both of us have been involved in. 1 Then I offer some practical directions while remaining critical of the potentials of colonizing treatments of non-Western participants in digital spaces. This work is an attempt to use my grasp of Western digital discourse, as partial insider, to metaphorically “subvert the master’s house using the master’s tools,” something Audre Lorde suggested was impos-