The Gloria Anzaldúa ReaderBorn in the Ro Grande Valley of south Texas, independent scholar and creative writer Gloria Anzald was an internationally acclaimed cultural theorist. As the author of Borderlands La Frontera: The New Mestiza, Anzald played a major role in shaping contemporary Chicano a and lesbian queer theories and identities. As an editor of three anthologies, including the groundbreaking This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, she played an