To Live in the Borderlands
by Gloria Anzaldua
Taken from the collection Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, ‘To Live in the Borderlands’ explores Anzaldua’s own heritage and her
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.
Taken from the collection Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, ‘To Live in the Borderlands’ explores Anzaldua’s own heritage and her