Gloria Anzaldua & the Theme of Tomorrow
Ive been really inspired the past two years by the work (writing and ideas) of Gloria Anzaldua. She curated two huge anthologies - This Bridge Called My Back & This Bridge We Call Home – as well as several other essays, articles, and texts, such as Borderlands: The New Mestiza. She speaks about bodies becoming bridges , or being in a constant state of “bridging” that never fully arrives at an established destination, as a means of critically and responsibly being in the world. That’s a very brief contextualization, but her work is always addressing progressive/transformative action and making choices in relation to a future ideal or horizon that may not actually be in the world yet. Creating new spaces. Borderlands, grey spaces, liminal spaces, queer spaces. That’s a bit vague and cryptic, but is essentially where the theme of ‘tomorrow’ began. In this sense I am considering ‘tomorrow’ more theoretically than literally - as more of a consistent and unravelling forward trajectory - a potential space for transgression, but that doesn’t at all mean anyone else needs to follow down that particular rabbit hole. Hopefully I can find some good Anzaldua excerpts to include here, she kinda rocks.
“Voyager, there are no bridges, one builds them as one walks.” – Gloria Anzaldua
posted by charli brissey
