How a “3rd-world Marxist lesbian feminist mystic” became a celebrated Chicana queer philosopher

How a “3rd-world Marxist lesbian feminist mystic” became a celebrated Chicana queer philosopher

When groundbreaking lesbian political writer Gloria Anzaldúa grew up as a seventh-generation Tejana and Chicana in South Texas’ Rio Grande Valley during the early 1940s, her grandparents had lost much of the land they had owned through “carelessness … white peoples’ greed, and my grandmother not knowing English,” she said. Anzaldúa — who had Spanish, German, Black, and indigenous Native American ancestry — felt the tension of her intersectional …