Gloria Anzaldua

Gloria Anzaldua (1942 – 2004), full name Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa, was a US scholar of Chicana cultural theory, feminist theory, and queer theory. She also developed theories about the marginal, in-between, and mixed cultures that develop along Mexico–Texas borders, including on the concepts of Nepantla, Coyoxaulqui imperative, new tribalism, and spiritual activism.

Wisdom & Quotes

• The revolution begins at home.

- This Bridge Called My Back

• I am visible... yet I am invisible. I both blind them with my beak nose and am their blind spot. But I exist, we exist. They'd like to think I have melted in the pot. But I haven't, we haven't.

- Borderlands/ La Frontera The New Mestiza

Abdullahi Ahmed An-Naim