Borderlands/La Frontera
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Indoctrinated As Straight
“There ought to be a time in one’s adult life which is dedicated to rediscovering the most important readings of our youth. Even if the books remain the same (though they too change, in the light of an altered historical perspective), we certainly have changed, and this later encounter is therefore completely new. –Italo Calvino, Continue reading
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Dear Gloria
What follows is a slight rewrite of a class assignment. The assignment was to write a response letter to “Speaking in Tongues: A Letter to Third World Women Writers” by Gloria Anzaldúa which can be found in the pages of A Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, an anthology edited by Continue reading
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“To Live in the Borderlands” by Gloria Anzaldua
On 28 March 2022, the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley unveiled the Gloria Anzaldua literary landmark just outside the university library’s doors. It is nestled underneath a tree, and open for the public to see even if the library is closed. I read Anzaldua’s work as a young man, and that person isn’t who Continue reading
Chapin City Blues 