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.@ALKeating Gloria tells her secrets about herself and her shame and that gives people pride.

Jessica: There is a place for me. I'm not a lone wolf. With borderlands I found kinship and a palpable power.

Jessica: To have these pivotal texts available is important to survive the borderlands.

Angelica: For me it was intense bullying. It was assimilate to survive.

Maria: The students negotiate the borderland spaces all the time. 30 years later these words still resonate.

Gloria writes in Borderlands, "I and Chicano students were required to take two speech classes. Their purposes: to get rid of our accents"

Jessica says Gloria Anzaldua made her feel that her identity is one of the same, this is ceremony, this is medicine.

.@ALKeating says: Anazaldua made it OK to switch back and forth and not explain everything in English. That is incredibly affirmative.

Jessica: The joteria movement wouldn't have been here without Gloria Anzaldua's work.

Gloria writes, "Fear of going home. And of not being taken in. We're afraid of being abandoned by the mother, the culture."

Angelica: Gloria lived by her own rules and that's inspired other young artists to do the same.

.@ALKeating says Gloria was using "queer" before queer theory made it's way into the academy. It was a working class term for her.

Jessica Helen Lopez says Mestizaje is a working definition for individuals.

Angelica: Codeswitching starts with language. We shift the way we act and speak depending on the space we're in.

.@ALKeating says borders arenot natural, it's an unnatural separation of what could be a commonality.

Gloria writes, "The U.S.-Mexican border es una herida abierta, where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds. "

.@ALKeating says Gloria had complex relationship with English and it motivated her to major in English to speak back to it

.@ALKeating says that when Anzaldua identified as Chicana, it was in a politicized way