Changing Our Minds with Gloria Anzaldúa

Suzanne Bost is a professor and chair of the Department of English at Loyola University Chicago. AnaLouise Keating is a professor of multicultural women's and gender studies at Texas Woman's University. Amelia María de la Luz Montes is a professor and chair of the Department of Chicano and Latino Studies at the University of Minnesota. Kelli D. Zaytoun is professor emeritus of English language and literatures at Wright State University.

• List of IllustrationsForeword. Shapeshifting into the Future with Anzaldúa (Norma E. Cantú)Introduction. Changing Our Minds (Suzanne Bost, AnaLouise Keating, Amelia de la Luz Montes, and Kelli Zaytoun)Chapter 1. S(h)elves and Seashells: Transforming Writing with the Gloria E. Anzaldúa Archive (Inmaculada Lara-Bonilla)Chapter 2. Animate Archives: Gloria Anzaldúa and Nick Cave (Suzanne Bost)Chapter 3. The Gloria Anzaldúa Archive as Ritual and Resistance (Kelli D. Zaytoun)Chapter 4. "Letting Go": Glucose Logs, Upending Narratives in Anzaldúa's Diabetes Journey (Amelia María de la Luz Montes)Chapter 5. Dislocating Consensual Realities of Harm: Shifting toward Homing Justice with Spiritual Activism (Jess Martinez (they/them/ellx))Chapter 6. "Susto in the City": Latinx New York in Anzaldúa, and Anzaldúa in Nueva York's Borderlands (Laura Lomas)Chapter 7. Crossing Borders with Racha: Nagualismo and el Cenote in Andrea Muñoz Martinez's Art (Sara A. Ramírez)Chapter 8. Gloria Anzaldúa and Reading as Political Praxis (Andrea J. Pitts)Chapter 9. Changing Ideas, Graphies, and Knowledge/Conocimiento Production Methods: Dialogues with Gloria Anzaldúa Since Brazil(s) (Patrícia M. Matos Albuquerque and Isabelle Caroline Damião Chagas)Chapter 10. "Writing Is My Way of Making Alliances": Asserting Blackness, Challenging Mestizaje, and the Future of Anzaldúan Studies (Rebeca L. Hey-Colón)Chapter 11. From Coatlicue to Coyolxauhqui: Risking the Personal (Yet Again) with Gloria Anzaldúa (AnaLouise Keating)ConclusionsAcknowledgmentsReferencesContributorsIndex

"This collection offers a powerful and timely reengagement with Gloria Anzaldúa's archive, challenging scholars to move beyond static interpretations and embrace the evolving, unfinished nature of her work. Through its emphasis on intellectual humility and methodological innovation, the volume invites a deeper reckoning with the limitations of traditional academic discourse. It is an essential contribution that pushes Anzaldúan scholarship toward more dynamic, reflective, and transformative practices." - Candace de León-Zepeda, Our Lady of the Lake University, coeditor of Teaching Gloria E. Anzaldúa: Pedagogy and Practice for Our Classrooms and Communities"This is a wondrous book from the open hearts and shape-shifting minds of Anzalduaistas, for the many fans of Gloria Anzaldúa across the generations and everyone who loves archives. Sparking our curiosity and desire for conocimiento, it will inspire our archival visits and returns. Changing our minds has never been so simultaneously joyous, uncomfortable, and generative" - Irene Lara, San Diego State University, coeditor of Women in Culture: An Intersectional Anthology of Gender and Women's Studies