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"Finding A Voice", "Pocho, cultural traitor, you're…

- - - - The Masculine Plural, as Anzaldua says, is so engraved into her culture that she had never even considered that there could be a feminine plural.
    - - She is criticized when she speaks English, but she is also criticized when she is speaking Spanish
        
        Chicano Spanish is a combination of English and Spanish and used by individuals who can't identify with just one or the other
        
        "...as long as I have to accommodate the English speakers than having them accommodate me, my tongue will be illegitimate."
- - - - Because of the Youth Group acting against the Soldiers and government in active rebellion, All youths (and citizens) are under constant surveillance. The girlfriend doesn't feel safe going outside to just breathe in the air because she knows that she will be watched
        
        The youth group are specifically targeted by this surveillance (and then killed or very badly beaten). The surveillance is mostly there to watch the youth in the case that they try to make contact with a member that hadn't been apprehended yet
    - - Soldiers threatening violence in order to force family members into incest for their own entertainment
        
        gross misuse of power to wreck havoc and violate the citizens
  - - - the youth cant just do things anymore like he was able to do in his youth. they are in surveillance and only allowed to really congregate in malls.
        
        Group settings scare the government?
        
        Children aren't allowed to do certain activities because of the fear around gangs
        
        war against youth
        
        Similar to "Children of the Sea", places that youth would normally flock to are being monitored in case any contact is made between these kids and gang members
- - - - Never truelly knowing who you are or what your cultural identity is,
        
        but knowing you are displaced and not understood by others
- - - - clearly police using their power to harm others, specifically minorities that had been wearing zoot-suits in this case
        
        the officers beat Salas into deafness
  - - - officers beating a man unprovoked
        
        when neighbors came out to investigate and help the man, the crowd was labeled as hostile and targeted
      - Ended up being beaten with a club
        
        about 40 stitches and exploded the optic nerves to the brain, eye had to be taken out
- - - - This is the opening memory in essay and most likely the more traumatic experience in Wiman's life
        
        Keeps coming back to this memory in flashbacks
        
        extreme guilt that shot could have been his furthers trauma
    - - Anything that considered "feminine" was considered off-limits, and instead masculine ideals were pushed forward
        
        Much like the mental health family history that was hidden from Wiman to promote "control and health", seemingly femine actions were replaced with hunting, guns, and physical violence (anything "manly")
        
        no true expression of self
        
        pushing forward toxic masculinity
        
        Feminine interiority is interior quality or character/ feminine expression
        
        masculine action like fighting and use of guns preferred over taking up a profession that is considered "feminine" like writing
  - - - called her parents to tell them to go home because she didn't want her dad's car or them to get caught up in the riots and damaged
        
        Anxiety of situations placed on her dad's car instead of herself to manage with experience