border-xser, story of a name

If a woman rebels she is a mujer mala. If a woman doesn’t renounce herself in favor of the male, she is selfish. If a woman remains a virgen until she marries, she is a good woman.

queeraztlan asked: Your description reminds me of Gloria Anzaldua!

That’s the intention! Inspired by a Gina Valdés quote found in Borderlands/La Frontera:

Hay tantísimas fronteras

que dividen a la gente,

pero por cada frontera

existe también un puente

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This is the only one to have really made me LOL.

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So, don’t give me your tenets and your laws. Don’t give me your lukewarm gods. What I want is an accounting with all three cultures - white, Mexican, Indian. I want the freedom to carve and chisel my own face, to staunch the bleeding with ashes, to fashion my own gods out of my entrails. And if going home is denied me then I will have to stand and claim my space, making a new culture -una cultura mestiza- with my own lumber, my own bricks and mortar and my own feminist architecture.