• Queer, Chicana feminist scholar, Gloria Anzaldúa, describes the U.S./Mexican borderlands as una herida abierta, an open wound, a liminal space of negotiations, which births a unique type of consciousness. Border consciousness is generated in this ambiguous space that exists between two cultures, two countries, two languages, and is marked by a unique mode of identity production and meaning making. I argue that her border theory supplies the necessary tools for thinking critically about the socia…Read more