Antioch University faculty members Tanjerine Vei and Rosa Garza-Mourino revisit and remember some of the contributions of Queer Chicanx activist and scholar Gloria Anzaldúa on the 19th anniversary of her passing.
Tanjerine Vei is a Ph.D. candidate in Education, Culture, and Society, and they received their M.Ed. from the same program. Their research focuses on developing pedagogies that promote critical consciousness and healing, spiritual activism, and community building. A central focus of these pedagogical approaches is creating teaching and learning environments that take on a playful spirit that can facilitate dialogue across differences. Their dissertation is a critical, decolonial participatory action research (C/DPAR) project wherein the research conducted is in community with those for whom the research is intended. In this project, a team of activist educators utilized queer phenomenology, spiritual activism, and decolonial ideologies to guide them in recreating educational practices in an ongoing process of studied change. Tanjerine is also a visual artist and gardener who enjoys caring for their three cats with their partner.
Rosa Garza-Mourino is a trans-disciplinary scholar, educator and academic administrator driven by curiosity and difference. Rosa earned her MA in Media and Cultural Studies in Mexico City. Before moving to the U.S., Rosa had extensive professional experience with Mexican think-tanks focused on media analysis and field study methods, as well as with adult education programs. She currently serves the AULA UGS Division as both part time faculty, and Director of External Academic Partnerships in charge of the Internship Program, local engagement initiatives, and articulation liaison with 2 year local colleges. Rosa is the volunteer chair of the AULA Diversity Inclusion committee.
Gloria Anzaldua lecture, April 24, 2003
The Gloria Anzaldúa Reader by Gloria Anzaldua; AnaLouise Keating (Editor)
Call Number: PS3551.N95 A6 2009
ISBN: 9780822345640
Publication Date: 2009-10-22
Born in the Río Grande Valley of south Texas, independent scholar and creative writer Gloria Anzaldúa was an internationally acclaimed cultural theorist. As the author of Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza, Anzaldúa played a major role in shaping contemporary Chicano/a and lesbian/queer theories and identities. As an editor of three anthologies, including the groundbreaking This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, she played an equally vital role in developing an inclusionary, multicultural feminist movement. A versatile author, Anzaldúa published poetry, theoretical essays, short stories, autobiographical narratives, interviews, and children's books. Her work, which has been included in more than 100 anthologies to date, has helped to transform academic fields including American, Chicano/a, composition, ethnic, literary, and women's studies. This reader--which provides a representative sample of the poetry, prose, fiction, and experimental autobiographical writing that Anzaldúa produced during her thirty-year career--demonstrates the breadth and philosophical depth of her work. While the reader contains much of Anzaldúa's published writing (including several pieces now out of print), more than half the material has never before been published. This newly available work offers fresh insights into crucial aspects of Anzaldúa's life and career, including her upbringing, education, teaching experiences, writing practice and aesthetics, lifelong health struggles, and interest in visual art, as well as her theories of disability, multiculturalism, pedagogy, and spiritual activism. The pieces are arranged chronologically; each one is preceded by a brief introduction. The collection includes a glossary of Anzaldúa's key terms and concepts, a timeline of her life, primary and secondary bibliographies, and a detailed index.
Gloria Anzaldua's hemispheric performativity : pieces, shuffles, layers by Romana Radlwimmer
ISBN: 9783031218705
This Palgrave Pivot offers new insights into leading Chicana writer Gloria Anzalda, investigating the dynamic composition of her texts, and situating her work in a larger hemispheric tendency of performativity emerging at the turn of the millennium. Presenting Anzalda as a quintessential figure of feminist and decolonial theory-making in the Americas, this book argues that the Chicana writer articulated her notions on fluctuations through performative concepts which did not respect the borders of single texts or editions, but organically grew through them. The offered close readings of Anzaldas published works, drafts, and archive material demonstrate the constant changes and intertwined phases of her literary and conceptual production. Romana Radlwimmer is Professor of Romance Literatures at the Goethe University of Frankfurt, Germany. She has held teaching and research positions in literary and cultural studies at the Universities of Salamanca, Lisbon, Augsburg, and Tbingen, and was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the University of Missouri, US. She is the author of Wissen in Bewegung: LatinaKulturtheorie / Literaturtheorie / Epistemologie (2015), and the editor of the volume Transborder Matters: Circulaciones literarias y transformaciones culturales chicanas y mexicanas (2020). She has published numerous peer-reviewed articles in her fields of research.
Borderlands / la Frontera: the New Mestiza, 5th Edition by Gloria Anzaldúa
Call Number: PS3551.N95 B67 2021
ISBN: 9781951874025
Publication Date: 2022-03-01
A new edition of Anzaldúa's classic text. "The U.S-Mexican border es una herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds. And before a scab forms it hemorrhages again, the lifeblood of two worlds merging to form a third country--a border culture."--Gloria Anzaldúa Rooted in Gloria Anzaldúa's experience as a Chicana, a lesbian, an activist, and a writer, the essays and poems in BORDERLANDS/LA FRONTERA: THE NEW MESTIZA profoundly challenged, and continue to challenge, how we think about identity. BORDERLANDS/LA FRONTERA remaps our understanding of what a "border' is, presenting it not as a simple divide between here and there, us and them, but as a psychic, social, and cultural terrain that we inhabit, and that inhabits all of us. "The emotional and intellectual impact of the book is disorienting and powerful...all languages are spoken, and survival depends on understanding all modes of thought. In the borderlands new creatures come into being. Anzaldúa celebrates this 'new mestiza' in bold, experimental writing."--The Village Voice "Anzaldúa's pulsating weaving of innovative poetry with sparse informative prose brings us deep into the insider/outsider consciousness of the borderlands; that ancient and contemporary, crashing and blending world that divides and unites America."--Women's Review of Books Poetry. Latinx Studies. Women's Studies. LGBTQIA Studies.