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Maimed, mad, and sexually different people were believed to possess supernatural powers by primal cu...

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Though we tremble before uncertain futuresmay we meet illness, death and adversity with strengthmay ...

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I will have my serpent’s tongue - my woman’s voice, my sexual voice, my poet’s voice. I will overcom...

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Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza

Living on borders and in margins, keeping intact one's shifting and multiple identity and integrity,...

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Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza

I preferred the world of imagination to the death of sleep

Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza

I am an act of kneading, of uniting and joining that not only has produced both a creature of darkne...

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Interviews/Entrevistas

We’re afraid the others will think we’re agringadas because we don’t speak Chicano Spanish. We oppre...

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A woman who writes has power, and a woman with power is feared.

Why am I compelled to write?... Because the world I create in the writing compensates for what the r...

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Caminante, no hay puentes, se hace puentes al andar. (Voyager, there are no bridges, one builds them...

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Gloria E. Anzaldúa

Scholar

Born: 1942-09-26

Died: 2004-05-15

Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa (September 26, 1942 – May 15, 2004) was a Chicana lesbian feminist scholar of Chicana cultural theory, feminist theory, and queer theory. She loosely based her best-known book, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, on her life growing up on the Mexico–Texas border and incorporated her lifelong experiences of social and cultural marginalization into her work.More