Weekly Quote: 25 Years of Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands
Aunt Lute celebrates the 25th anniversary of
Gloria Anzaldúa‘s
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza with weekly quotes about the enduring importance and beauty of this groundbreaking work.
I refuse to let [Gloria] go—to relegate her wholly to some dead past. I still marvel at her ability to speak to so many people across racial, class, gender, and sexuality divisions. And at the very same time, I feel that there is a piece that is just for Chicanas—you know, eye to eye, entre la raza, entre las mujeres.
—Edén Torres, from “Wounds of Fire: Anzaldúa’s Cultural Production from Pain to Theory”
News and Notes
February 17, 2012 • Aunt Lute author
Rosa Montero is featured in
La Voz magazine and
The Prisma for her evocative writing and incisive views on the state of journalism. Montero’s 1997 book
La hija del cannibal (
The Cannibal’s Daughter) was recently reviewed by Diana Casais as part of
La Voz’s Literary café series.
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Aunt Lute celebrates the 25th anniversary of
Gloria Anzaldúa‘s
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza with weekly quotes about the enduring importance and beauty of this groundbreaking work. An influence work in women’s and Chicana/Latina studies—and in the lives of everyday people—
Borderlands not only expressed Gloria’s perspectives as a queer mestiza, but offered a new, hybrid way of speaking and understanding for all outsiders.
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Borderlands?
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February 1, 2012 • Aunt Lute authors
Nancy Agabian and
Emma Pérez will be reading at the AWP creative writers conference as part of “Ancestors; A Queer Writers of Color Reading.” As described by the organizers, Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán and Tony Valenzuela, “”Ancestors: A Queer Writers of Color Reading” is a literary reading featuring same-gender-loving, multiple-gender-loving, and transgender poets, non/fiction writers, filmmakers, and performance artists of Indigenous Pacific, Native North American, Arab/Middle Eastern, Asian, Latina/o, and African descent.”
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January 24, 2012 • Aunt Lute is currently seeking a marketing intern for a part-time, stipended position in San Francisco. You’ll find the details below, and on our
internships page. Please help spread the word to those in the Bay Area who may be interested.
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January 17, 2012 •
Judy Grahn is among the writers discussed in a recent New York Times article about Matthew Kirschenbaum’s forthcoming literary history of word processing. Judy’s experience with her old Exxon PC was “the most moving testimonial,” for Mr. Kirschenbaum. Grahn explained to him how the computer saved her up to a year while she was writing Another Mother Tongue, a cultural history of gay life published in the early years of the AIDS epidemic.
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January 10, 2012 •
LeAnne Howe’s poetry was recently published in Sing: Poetry from the Indigenous Americas, a multilingual anthology of indigenous American poetry edited by professor and poet Allison Hedge Coke to serve as a lasting reference for native voices and a link between South American and North American poets.
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