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Global Feminist Selves - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Nao's struggle after moving to Japan and experiencing bullying in school
      - Ruth's longing for returning to NYC, feeling like she lost years of her life
    - - The auction that went up on the internet which severely hurt Nao's mental health
      - The obsessive nature of Ruth's endless search for info on Nao and her family online
    - - Haruki #1's decision to fly into the ocean instead of harming other people
  - - - Asughara entered Ada's body to shield them from sexual situations (64)
      - Trouble feeling in control
        
        "I don't even have the mouth to tell this story. I'm so tired most of the time. Besides, whatever they say will be the truest version of it, since they are the truest version of me" (93)
- - - - “We felt just like she did, the most alone we could remember, torn from the place of our first and second births: taken on a plane across an ocean, given no return date… This was a side effect of being in a body, the fact that the humans had a human life… We were hungry inside her, raging against this useless mortality, as if we could rage right back into the world we came from. We raged at the displacement of a new country. After all, were we not ogbanje? It was an insult to be subject to the decisions made around what was just a vessel. To be carried away like cargo, to be deposited in the land of the corrupters, inside this child simmering with emotions, searching for us because she was uprooted and alone, and we, always we, having to fix it…” (47)
      - “I stop being afraid of relocations and I can move wherever I want because I know that I will be loved constantly across all space. And even if it fades with them, it wil bloom again. We are all conduits. It moves through us freely. Yshwa, I am tired of pain. It’s just easier to focus on love and an existence outside of this world. At least that feels like freedom” (202)
    - - “Perhaps in another world, where the Ada was not split and segmented, she and Saint Vincent might have been one thing together. After all, she was always being mistaken for a boy when she was a child… The Ada liked being seen as a boy. She felt like it fit, or at least the misfit of it fit, the wrongness was right” (122-123)
  - - - When Nao was visiting Jiko in the temple, Jiko told Nao how to bear with mosquito bites (leaving them alone rather than scratching it). Jiko introduces Nao to a more collaborative and embracing relationship with subjects in nature as they exist holistically with humans. (pg. 204)
      - The unlikely chance that this diary along with Haruki #1's watch would wind up in Ruth and Oliver's hands, along with the migration of the non-native Jungle Crow and goosenecks (54 for Jungle crow, 115 for goosenecks)
      - When Jiko and Nao are by the ocean, Jiko tells Nao that the ups and downs of tidal movements are essentially the same. When Nao argues that tides change for surfers, Jiko tells that people may work more cooperatively with nature instead of simply exploiting it. (pg .194)
    - - Ruth finds Haruki #2 and is looking for Nao within her dream, where she talks to him (351)
  - - - “This voluntary (yet forced) alienation makes for psychological conflict, a kind of dual identity–we don’t identify with the Anglo-American cultural values and we don’t totally identify with the Mexican cultural values. We are a synergy of two cultures with various degrees of Mexicanness or Angloness. I have so internalized the borderland conflict that sometimes I feel like one cancels out the other and we are zero, nothing, no one. A veces no soy nada ni nadie. Pero hasta cuando no lo soy, lo soy” (63
- - - - pg 53-53 -- teacher is telling her to speak english and does not say her name correctly
      - "and because we internalize how our language has been used against us by the dominant culture we use our language differences against each other" (58)
- - - - “I will no longer be made to feel ashamed of existing. I will have my voice: Indian, Spanish, white. I will have my serpent’s tongue–my woman’s voice, my sexual voice, my poet’s voice. I will overcome the tradition of silence” (59)
      - "that third element is a new consciousness-a mestiza consciousness-and though it is a source of intence pain, its energy comes from continual creative motion that keeps breaking down the unitary as part of each new paradign" (80)