as small as a world and as large as alone

7:04pm May 14, 2013

bidyke:

[Image: a bust image of Gloria Anzaldúa in white and blue. Her head is surrounded by swirls in red-brown and yellow, spreading toward the edges of the image. Background is grunge pink, and the image has a grunge red-brown frame around it].

Gloria Anzaldúa, one of my favorite queer women of color<3

From “La Prieta”:

I am a wind-swayed bridge, a crossroads inhabited by whirlwinds … You say my name is ambivalence? Think of me as Shiva, a many-armed and legged body with one foot on brown soil, one on white, one in straight society, one in the gay world, the man’s world, the women’s, one limb in the literary world, another in the working class, the socialist, and the occult worlds. A sort of spider woman hanging by one thin strand of web.
Who, me confused? Ambivalent? Not so. Only your labels split me.

 

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