This land was Mexican once, was Indian always and is.And will be again.
Living on borders and in margins, keeping intact one's shifting and multiple identity and integrity, is like trying to swim in a new element, an 'alien' element.
Compañera, cuando amábamos(for Juanita Ramos and other spik dykes)¿Volverán, campañera, esas tardes sordasCuando nos amábamos tiradas en las sombras bajo otoño?Mis ojos clavados en tu miradaTu mirada...
Esos movimientos de rebeldia que tenemos en la sangre nosotros los mexicanos surgen como rios desbocanados en mis venas.
The process of falling apart (the Coyolxauhqui process), of being wounded, is a sort of shamanic initiatory dismemberment that gives suffering a spiritual and soulful value. The shaman’s initiatory or...
I will have my serpent’s tongue - my woman’s voice, my sexual voice, my poet’s voice. I will overcome the tradition of silence.
I preferred the world of imagination to the death of sleep
I meet you with my heart in my hand.
The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react
It is our customto consumethe person we love.Taboo flesh: swollengenitalia nipplesthe scrotum the vulvathe soles of the feetthe palm of the handheart and liver taste best.Cannibalism is blessed.I'll w...
But there are no safe spaces. 'Home' can be unsafe and dangerous because it bears the likelihood of intimacy and thus thinner boundaries. Staying 'home' and not venturing out from our group comes from...
Like all people, we perceive the version of reality that our culture communicates. Like others having or living in more than one culture, we get multiple, often opposing messages. The coming together...
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 thir...