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Global Feminist Selves, “‘What it is,’ she sighed, ‘to have to choose…

- - - - Thirty Names of Night: "There are bodies with breasts, with thighs, with scars, with canes; wearing high heels, wearing high tops; large bodies, small bodies, bodies that twirl and shake and fill the room. This is not dancing, but a becoming of winged creatures."
      - "The U.S.-Mexican border es una herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds. And before a scab forms it hemorrhages again, the lifeblood of two worlds merging to form a third country-a border culture" (Borderlands pg. 3).
      - Until I am free to write bilingually and to switch codes without having always to translate, whIle I still have to speak English or Spanish when I would rather speak Spanglish, and as long as I have to accommodate the English speakers rather than having them accommodate me, my tongue will be illegitimate" (Borderlands pg. 59).
- - - - “Choosing this death gives me tremendous consolation…By volunteering to sortie, I have now regained a modicum of agency over the time remaining in my life. Death in a ground offensive or bombing attack seems random and imprecise. This death is not. It is pure, clean, and purposeful” (A Tale for the Time Being pg. 256).
- - - - "As a person, I, as a people, we, Chicanos, blame ourselves, hate ourselves, terrorize ourselves. Most of this goes on unconsciously; we only know that we are hurting, we suspect that there is something "wrong" with us, something fundamentally "wrong .. " (Borderlands pg. 45).