VISUALIZE YOUR VOICE!

In her 1987 essay “La Concienca de la Mestiza: Toward a New Consciousness” Gloria Anzaldúa (1942-2004) talks about the MESTIZA CONSCIOUSNESS of women born at the intersection of racial, gender, and sexual difference. Each culture communicates its own version of reality, which we, inherent in one culture, perceive … What is needed though, she says, is an ‘alien’ consciousness, the consciousness of the Borderlands! Being a source of intense pain, it is also full of energy coming from continual creative motion that keeps breaking down the unitary aspect. Which would get us out of the dualistic view, stepping towards liberation from cultural domination …

“THE POSSIBILITIES ARE NUMEROUS ONCE WE DECIDE TO ACT AND NOT REACT.” And: “THE WORK TAKES PLACE UNDERGROUND – SUBCONSCIOUSLY. IT IS WORK THAT THE SOUL PERFORMS.”