Cuando vives en la frontera, people walk through you, wind steals your voice, you're a burra, buey, scapegoat forerunner of a new race, half and half-- both woman and man, neither-- a new gender. Gloria Anzaldua, in Borderlands/ La Frontera, 1987. In these days of anxiety about the Mexican/ US border, anti-immigrant xenophobia, and gay-bashing, I turn to Chicana lesbian activist writer, Gloria Anzaldua to remind me who we are as a people.
