Hey there folks, my video was quoted in this short experimental film by CJ. Please check it out! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3aQu_9GxxE4.html
Reading into Glorias work, while I am not queer, has helped me to find something to culturally identify as a mixed Mexican American who does not speak Spanish. I am glad that I found something that I can identify with as Mestizo.
Hdjskismdo I just found this, but omg it got me so excited hearing someone talk about my icon Gloria Anzaldúa. Appreciate your time and energy to make this!
Thanks so much for this! I'm going to use this in the Race & Ethnicity class I teach and I'm so excited for my students to explore these concepts and histories! Thank you!
She was an inspiration to so many people when I was younger. As humans, we identified with her struggle and fight to be and explore all things that shape the self. As fellow Texans , her poetry and words of rebellious love were respected, didnt matter ethnicity or orientation, her search for meaning resonated , and continues to resonate, thanks for sharing. People today could use a reminder
It's very sad to not have Anzaldua around today when Latine folks in the US are trying to understand their place in the US while also having a reckoning with the whiteness that exists within our community. Many of us white/white-passing Latine, unfortunately, have co-opted this idea of mestiza to run away from the reality of our privilege, while at the same time showing little respect or acknowledgment to indigenous and black folks in our places of origin outside of these conversations to distance themselves from their fact of whiteness. While this mestiza consciousness is vital for the survival of truly intersectional folks, this "tolerance for ambiguity" can be dangerous when adopted by people for which ambiguity means nothingness instead of embracing everything as Anzaldua wished.
Just watched your video for my race and ethnics studies course, it made me feel very comfortable knowing that even though I don’t speak Spanish being a Mexican-American I can recognize myself through the mestiza consciousness
It's so strange for me hearing this because I'm yet another layer removed, into whiteness. I'm "a quarter Mexican" and within that, mestizx / chicanx. But my black hair and 'stache don't let me forget it, and I feel that despite the generations of "cleansing la raza", something of... all of this exists within me. But I'm hesitant to identify myself with it at all. My grandmother effectively "stopped being Mexican" when she got married, but you can't just undo who you are.
This pretty much sums my experience up, also quarter Mexican and lived in a predominantly white area. I couldn’t help but feel as though my “fellow”anglos always viewed me with a skeptic eye and knew I was somehow different than they were even if they weren’t sure of what my mixed heritage was.
Neplantera, en el 50th anniversary of Xican@ Moratorium, I've arrived in Nepantla. Denis gracias. Do you have a lesson plan for middle school students? I will create one. Great interpretation!
I apologize for the late reply, I haven’t been getting notifications for comments. I do not, I’m not actually a teacher, but I love that Latinx History is being taught to middle school students!
Wow, Denis although I am not gay I can totally relate to not feeling like I belong to my own race because I am too gringa and also too Mexican to be American.
