Gloria Anzaldúa

Gloria Anzaldúa

An Chicano scholar, activist, lesbian, feminist, writer, and poet, Anzaldúa worked as a school teacher before completing her master's and doctoral studies in Comparative Literature at the University of Texas at Austin. In 1977 she moved to California, where She devoted herself to writing while working as a professor at San Francisco State University, the University of California at Santa Cruz, and Florida Atlantic University, among others.

Anzaldúa's space mixes cultures, languages, prose and poetry, sexuality and gender. Her unique writing has contributed to the definition of feminism, as well as the cultural area of ​​Chicano and queer theory. Anzaldúa is a very spiritual woman, her grandmother was a healer and in many of her works she invokes her devotion to the Virgin of Guadalupe, Nahuatl-Toltec deities, and the Yoruba mythology of Orishas such as Yemayá and Oshún. In his later writings he developed a spiritual activism to describe how contemporary social actors can mix spirituality with politics to bring about revolutionary change.