Authors:
Pat Vera
Our bodies and geographies of selves made up of diverse, bordering and overlapping "countries." We are all composed of information, billions of bits of cultural knowledge superimposing many categories of communication. —Gloria Anzaldúa [2] Being in the borders, migrating from the soil that held us captive as bastards of a colonial memory, intersects with the notion of our mestizaje [3] as a contraption, an imperfect and unique machine that reinvents itself in thousands of identity webs. We are "uno," that is, multiple; we carry with us our ancestors, our soil, and the unforgotten history of our Indigenous identity. In…
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