Gloria Anzaldua was an American theorist. She wrote feminist, queer, and cultural theory and is remembered as an activist. Her poems often explore living on the margins of society. She won the Sappho Award of Distinction and an NEA Fiction Award. Anzaldua passed away in 2004. Read more about Gloria Anzaldua in her biography.
‘To Live in the Borderlands’ explores mixed-race identity, urging the embrace of all heritage to navigate cultural intersections.
To live in the borderlands means you
are neither hispana india negra espanola
ni gabacha, eres mestiza, mulata, half-breed
caught in the crossfire between camps
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