Unable to sleep I find myself thinking about Latina culture and writing a blog, clearly something is wrong with me. On that note, I was browsing through a few links on Gloria E. Anzaldúa after reading through part of Boderlands/Fronteras: The New Mestiza and figured I'd write a bit about what I found.
Gloria is best known for the text mentioned above and for writing as a queer/chicana theorist. Do to physical abnormalities -of the reproductive and endocrine systems- she experienced menstration at a very young age and eventually underwent a hysterectomy.
Born in Texas gloria made her way through college eventually becoming a teacher herself at a few well-known universites with one of them being UCSC. I'm from Santa Cruz where Gloria lived and worked before she died in 2004 due to complications from diabetes.
The following are some of her works:
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (1981), New edition: Third Women Press, 2001, ISBN 0943219221
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza(1987), ISBN 1879960125, Aunt Lute Books
Making Face, Making Soul/Haciendo Caras: Creative and Critical Perspectives by Feminists of Color, Aunt Lute Books (1990), ISBN 1879960109
Interviews/Entrevistas (2000), ISBN 0415925037
This Bridge We Call Home: Radical Visions for Transformation(2002), ISBN 0415936829
The Gloria Anzaldúa Reader, edited by AnaLouise Keating. Duke University Press. (2009).
Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloria_E._Anzald%C3%BAa
somehow half of the text I wrote is gone? I hate blogging . . . FB and Twitter are as far as I ever want to go with blogging after this class . . . I'm all for social media but this is annoying as can be when half of what I write magically ddddiiiissssssaaaappppeeeaaarrrssss
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